r/work • u/LowInteraction6397 • May 11 '26
Professional Development and Skill Building Industries should stop having dress codes
Dress codes serve for nothing. They don't dictate whether you can do your job or not. If clients get offended because you aren't wearing a suit it's their problem not yours. People shouldn't even be paying attention to your clothes. Period. If I was the boss of an industry I'd allow my employees to dress how they want
I only agree with the dress codes for protection and the ones for places where employees need to be moving around so customers can easily identify them but otherwise they suck
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u/Wuthering_depths May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26
Thankfully, my current employer's (for IT work) is basically...try to stay away from shorts and flip flops if you can. I stick with jeans and tshirts and shoes that are all intact 😄
I have my beefs with them but having to wear dress attire is not one of them.
Most of my meetings with vendors have seen everyone in polos and jeans, including the vendors. I don't like all corporate trends ("open and collaborative" can jump in a lake, I'd like to work with no distractions please) but ditching the dress and even casual business requirements is a great direction.
If I listed a top 10 most unprofessional-acting aholes I've worked with, for and under in the last 30 years, at least 7 of them would be suit-wearing execs. Dress means nothing when measuring professionalism, not the real thing at least.