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R&D teams within HP Enterprise Services received memos this week reminding them about the company's rules regarding workplace fashion. "If you aren't dressed like the models in the posters that HP displays around its locations, then your appearance is sapping the productivity of the workers around you," was one summary of the memo by an anonymous source. Many employees have become comfortable wearing t-shirts and shorts on a regular basis, and it is believed that "scruffy-looking" engineers might alienate visiting customers.
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F.S. Fitzgerald to Hemingway:
"Ernest, the rich are different from us."
Hemingway:
"Yes. They have more money."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @02:38PM
Easier solution - don't take your customers to the engineers, bring selected (and pre-warned) engineers to your customers in a controlled setting. Then your staff and customers can both be happy.
This.
Or, design your facility (including employee uniforms) with customer visits in mind from the beginning. A classic example of this is Penske Racing. Behind every car bay (work station) is a storage room. When the race cars are taken apart for service, the removed parts are immediately taken into the store room, there are never parts or tools laying around in the shop. Roger Penske can bring a sponsor through the shop at any time and it always looks spotless. This must cost a small fortune, but he's the owner and he must feel that the investment is worthwhile.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 26 2015, @04:27PM
A common trick at my last employer was for employees to have a nice-ish shirt with the company logo hanging in their locker or cubicle that they could throw on in a moment's notice to instantly look professional in case customers visited.