Biker Shorts and Crop Tops in the office

[Anonymous]

This is interesting. I’m a x-ennial and generally in favor of dress codes at the office. But I have been on camera Fromm the chest up in gym clothes, or one of the 20 year old t-shirts that I sleep in. I wouldn’t think of wearing these to the office but at home it seems OK.

As we continue to move into this hybrid work world we are being told to focus on the work product and not the time the employee is actually in their seat. I wonder if dress code expectations will go away as well? If an employee isn’t client facing and can get their job done in a crop top, does it matter?

[Anonymous]

That’d NOT be allow in our company. Business casual attire, Consulting Firm.

[Anonymous]

We wear hoodies at out board meetings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of jobs send people home for dress code violations?

My law firm did. Saw it happen. The girl was mortified and in tears.

My government office dress code policy says they will, but I haven't seen it happen yet.

What was the attire the young woman was wearing that got her sent home?

[Anonymous]

We don’t send people home but something like that would get your team lead taking you aside to provide feedback and would make it into your performance review if if was consistent.

[Anonymous]

Where I work we have a lot of early 20s-early 30s hybrid workers and I haven’t noticed this issue. I’ve seen too-tight pencil skirts and maybe sweatshirts thrown over office clothing on a particularly cold morning but nothing that seems like a consistent issue from any specific demographic. People are explicitly told it’s a business casual dress code and everyone seems to grasp that.

I will say, people are much more casual in video meetings but management is fine with that.

[Anonymous]

i am 44 and I don't gaf what anyone wears. I'd be thrilled if we could all just wear what we want forever onwards.

[Anonymous]

Everyone is back to what they used to wear in office.

[Anonymous]

In my office things are a notch more casual than before— more sneakers for example, more casual shirts that people got used to wearing on zoom but aren’t really business casual. Etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been seeing guys in shorts in office

I strongly support this. It makes zero sense to air conditioning offices to 65 degrees so men can wear long pants when it is 95 degrees out. We are killing our planet for a stupid concept of pretending men don’t have knees.
I am also very in favor of the new trend towards wearing nicer looking sneakers to office—let’s not kill our feet and backs for no reason.
But in general, I think people should dress professionally and cover their bellies, butts and boobs in the office. That’s true for all sexes.