Read more.A third have “received unwanted comments about their appearance at work”.
Read more.A third have “received unwanted comments about their appearance at work”.
I don't get stressed about it. I wear what I want within the guidelines of the company I'm working for at the time.
Only one thing I refuse to wear and that's a tie. Mainly because I haven't worn a tie for years, since an EU directive came in saying you couldn't make employees wear one.
There's also stuff about the tie being a symbol of the employee's subservience to their employer, like a leash thing, but I only trot that out when people mention me not wearing one. Me wearing a tie wouldn't make me any better at doing my job, in fact it would be a hindrance.
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Most of the country will have you wear shirt and tie, especially post-Brexit.
We're supposed to, but most of the Engineers just wear polo shirts and slacks, chinos or some weird corduroy cargo pants type stuff, usually with shoes any colour other than black.
I'm supposed to as well, but since lazing around in my bike leathers was frowned upon, I resorted to wearing company branded field kit... which is basically blue polo shirt and cargos, with black leather combat boots (which is the only type of footwear I have owned since I was 13).
Last place I used to work was just a pit of coders wearing mostly jeans/t-shirt. I didn't mind it but did feel slobbish.
I work for a bigger company now, nice shirt, trousers, cufflinks, occasional tie - didn't cost a fortune but I feel like I'm making a good impression, and the only stress I have is if I haven't ironed my shirt the night before.
Dress down Fridays, seems fairly standard.
Cusotomer facing - wear a tie. Not facing customers - no tie. Doing manual work - overalls or other equivalent. Self employed - whatever you want so long as it doesn't lose you business.
Or follow company policy if available.
Pointless drama is pointless.
That said I once worked for a company, not IT, who had it passed down from on high via my manager about the length of my hair (when I had hair ffs..). I asked if a similar comment had been passed on to any of the female staff and heard nothing more about it again.
This sounds more like a way for that jobsite just to get their name mentioned.
Grab that. Get that. Check it out. Bring that here. Grab anything useful. Take anything good.
I only get stressed when I never have to see a client but am expected to dress smart.
Waste of time, money and effort to appease someone else who has to wear a suit.
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Only met one company in my career with a dress code for IT day-to-day. With others you are supposed to wear something respectful when going on customer site or presentation, but other than that as long as you don't violate the law nobody cares.
But rly, I refuse to wear ties and suit. Office itself is air conditioned, but in summer you are really hot in that when going to/from work, in winter you freeze. And after sitting 8hrs in a chair your suit looks like chewed up by a cow no matter what.
No dress code pretty much wear what you want within reason, so normally I am in cargo trousers or cargo shorts, and a shirt often summery one like a toned down Hawaiian one or christmas themed ones atm.
I certainly don't worry about what I am going to wear each day, just grab the next shirt out hte wardrobe
Problem with this is "IT" is rather a broad field/description
As someone who works in IT support, I dislike suit&tie or even shirt&tie, it might look smart, until you have to go digging round inside stuff, crawling under desks, going into those often grotty hidden areas most people never see.
And then your nice clean shirt and trousers are filthy, your shoes get scuffed to heck and back and dangling tie can be an issue getting in the way.
Combats/Cargo are good, they have pockets, more than once I've had my hands full of pc&monitor while my pockets are full of relevant cables & mouse.
Combat boots, great although they can be a bit clompy.
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Friend of mine is IT app support for Viacom/MTV. He has to wear a proper suit!
Get the 1980s model Boots Combat High, nice and slim, low-profile sole, lightweight leather and soft like slippers but tough like.... well, old boots, really. The mkII ones have a padded tongue, as well.
Wear black (overdyed - it hides the stitching) jeans and black leather trainers with a plain shirt (not tshirt). From a distance you look like a smart exec, but it's comfortable and suitable for crawling under/over desks
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Ahhhhhh poor IT people having to wear restrictive clothes.
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