Are you a person who loves casual Friday’s and wear your Hawaiian shirt with pink flamingos and tiki drinks? For those of you who prefer being comfy at work instead of fashioning a professional suit, how much would you pay to rock jeans at work not just on dress-down days, but every day during the workweek?
Randstad is a business that offers a service of “matching smart people with great jobs, from the executive office to the manufacturing floor.” The company surveyed over 1,200 U.S. workers in June to find out how important dress codes are to employees. It turns out that for some employees, wearing jeans is extremely valuable to a good amount of workers.
One-third of workers polled said they would rather work for an employer who had an informal dress code and would be willing to give up $5,000 in salary. The staffing company’s poll found that 33% would quit their job or decline a job offer in favor of a job where they could ditch the ties, suit jackets and slacks and wear casual attire such as jeans. Then again, you could elect to get a work-from-home job and wear whatever the hell you want or nothing at all.
Of the participants in the Randstad survey, 65% said it’s still important for applicants to wear a suit during a job interview. For 42% of respondents, they said they rather be 20 minutes late to an interview than show up looking disheveled or underdressed.
When employees are working from home, 50% of those surveyed said they wear business attire from the waist up and casual clothing from the waist down during video calls. You know a ton of those people are just rocking their tighty whities.
“The bottom line is, as long as employees dress in a way that’s consistent with their employer’s policies, most managers care less about what their employees wear than about their performance and work output,” Traci Fiatte, said CEO of professional and commercial staffing at Randstad US, in a statement.
[CNBC]