pen communication between staff and managers, cost savings to employees because casual business wear is less expensive, and improved work quality. Many companies do not have casual-dress days because there are many ways wearing casual clothing can hurt business. Employees may interpret the word casual too liberally and wear inappropriate clothing. The professional image may also be weakened if clients feel employees are too casual to be entrusted with their business. Uniformity and conformity is often lost because all the employees look different. This may make some feel uncomfortable or less presentable in professional situations. Some employees may not be taken seriously or seen as effective when dressed casually.Most companies have adopted Friday as casual-dress day. "The idea for casual Fridays spawned from fund-raising initiatives by charitable organizations that engaged employers to allow employees to buy the privilege to wear casual attire to work by donating money to the charitable organization." In the past ten years, the trend toward dress-down Fridays has spread through the corporate world so much that 90 percent of United States workers wear casual clothing to the office at least part of the time. EMPLOYEE EFFICIENCYWays Casual Dress Affects Employee EfficiencyThe way many employees work on casual-dress days may also become casual. Many managers feel dress-down days are a bad idea because employees feel they have a free day rather than another day at work. Employees tend to talk with other employees about things that are not related to work on casual-dress days. This leads to the employees accomplishing fewer tasks than on a normal-dress day. Many companies do not allow employees in sales positions to take part in casual-dress days because potential customers often feel the can not trust a company with a casual atmosphere. Many times, sales associates do not suggest a sale as well on casual-dress days because ...
