Casual Dress Code and Employee Motivation

Our work culture nestles into a daily life interspersingSimilarly organisations with this attitude like publications,
and making it also the same. Sometimes individuals findmagazine houses and tour agencies allow their
it hard to keep their personal and professional lifeemployees to dress down. And does that work. Yes it
different. One of the instances is the clothes onedoes. Employees are motivated to get the work done
wears to office.than staring at each others branded clothes. With the
Mostly as organisations have it, formals are to bedress down policy anybody can wear what they
worn to work. While some have a Saturday dressplease so there is less thinking in the morning as to
down syndrome some have formals even onwhat do I wear today and employees show up on
Saturdays. As the working professional gets immersedtime. They can sit comfortably and work better that
in work and the atmosphere, he or she gets toincreases productivity which is ultimately the underlying
wearing formals anywhere and everywhere.reason for any organisation.
So even on a day off, when the employee is out withBut at the same time getting dressed down does not
family his dressing sense remains formal, this ismean you can wear shorts and Bermudas to office.
because it is hard for him to break away from theThat is going overboard. This never really happens but
routine code. Besides, wearing an executive attiresometimes you get employees who take the entire
ushers in an atmosphere very formal as against ahand when you give them the finger.
casual and a cool environment.Being speculative about how employees will change
If one goes into an ad agency you will find most oftheir attitude with the dress down work code is natural.
them are very casually dressed. Infact the seniorSo you can introduce it backwards. Like Saturdays
creative guys wear dusty torn jeans, a shirt pulled outand Fridays are dress down days. See how your
and slippers on bare feet. Not because they do notemployees react to it. Give it a month or two. If it really
have the money to spend, but because they want toaffects the attitude, aptitude and growth level. Then
feel comfortable in their attire and hence workintroduce it for the rest of the days or keep it
comfortably.reserved for a few days only.