Ours says something like “Formal suits and ties are not required, but colleages should be dressed appropriately for the workplace, and whether you are customer facing or not, you should not dress inappropriately casually.” which is nice because I find ties uncomfortable, but there’s a grey area a mile wide there that I would rather there weren’t.
In practice, this means that crocs, shorts, mini skirts, loud shirts and crop tops all get called out by the boss, but he seems no more willing than I am to call out a low neckline in public, and I don’t know whether that’s because he doesn’t mind, doesn’t care, didn’t like getting criticised in the past for noticing, or secretly likes low necklines.
I’m certainly not bringing it up in AOB any year soon. I’ve overheard the “well you shouldn’t have been looking” conversion enough in the past to know how some folk react to bring asked to tone it down somewhat.
Ours says something like “Formal suits and ties are not required, but colleages should be dressed appropriately for the workplace, and whether you are customer facing or not, you should not dress inappropriately casually.” which is nice because I find ties uncomfortable, but there’s a grey area a mile wide there that I would rather there weren’t.
In practice, this means that crocs, shorts, mini skirts, loud shirts and crop tops all get called out by the boss, but he seems no more willing than I am to call out a low neckline in public, and I don’t know whether that’s because he doesn’t mind, doesn’t care, didn’t like getting criticised in the past for noticing, or secretly likes low necklines.
I’m certainly not bringing it up in AOB any year soon. I’ve overheard the “well you shouldn’t have been looking” conversion enough in the past to know how some folk react to bring asked to tone it down somewhat.