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posted by takyon on Sunday July 26 2015, @01:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the suit-up dept.

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:46PM (#213991)

    I agree with this comment. Customers are not engineers and therefore cannot say who is less or more professional based on their daily activities, because the customer will see the engineers only once or twice. All they can see is the outside, the skin they wear over their human skin. If the outer skin looks bad, people think the inside is also rotten (which it sometimes is).

    And also, dressing like a professional adds a certain intelligence to the already intelligent person. Dressing really good will not turn a hairdresser into a physicist. The one already intelligent will think better and perform better when dressed like a professional. But he cannot be forced to wear what he does not want to wear. It has to come from the inside. A culture that promotes dressing well in a professional setting will increase productivity and contentment, and also make them more human and less animal.

    That is my observation.

  • (Score: 1) by Bogsnoticus on Monday July 27 2015, @03:47AM

    by Bogsnoticus (3982) on Monday July 27 2015, @03:47AM (#214059)

    I think and perform better when I am not hampered by brainfarts from middle management. The more middle management tries to micromanage, the worse performance they get from pretty much everyone.

    Besides, if the brain requires oxygen, why wear a tie?

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    Genius by birth. Evil by choice.