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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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(Score: 3, Interesting) by q.kontinuum on Sunday July 26 2015, @05:57PM
But my(*) service is not jumping. Jumping is easy, and they can turn to anyone if I'm not in the mood. My service is software development, and the market is such that demand is still higher than availability. So, they can ask someone else to do the development or they can bear with my qualification and fashion style.
* "my" does not mean really "my" service in particular, but reasonably good professional software developers in general. Personally, I'd probably follow the dress code if I'm content with the job otherwise, because I don't care for fashion either way. But being allowed to dress the way I like is one of many perks an employer can offer me, and what's more, it's one that comes for free to them and seems to play an important role to many developers in order to feel comfortable. Dress code can be one of many straws breaking the camels back.
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