Whether employers should be more concerned with their employees' dressing manner or their work
quality has become a heated topic in recent years.
Some people believe that it is beneficial to have a dress code in the workplace, if only for image
reasons. Workers may be asked to wear a uniform to communicate a corporate image and ensure that
people easily identify them. This is particularly true to a workplace where employees have regular
face-to-face contact with customers and clients. For this reason, nowadays an increasing number of
workplaces prefer to set up a dress code and subtly promote the visual uniformity. While it is hard
to determine how the visual uniformity is related to quality at work, having a dress code in place
may help the way a corporation wants to be perceived.
However, some people think that having a strict dress code may actually affect the employees'
quality at work. One of its biggest downsides is that a strict dress code can stifle individuality
since workers are not given total freedom to demonstrate their personal styles. Sometimes employees
complain that a dress code causes feelings of stress among themselves and consequently leads to
lower effectiveness and efficiency at work.
In conclusion, employers should be concerned about the quality at work, but whether a dress code
makes sense for a workplace is a question only employers can answer. With quality of work in mind,
it is up to every employer to decide whether he should care about the way his employees
should dress.