Workplace Fashion

As we have mentioned in earlier posts, your appearance is an important part of your non-verbal communication in the workplace and there are also benefits to dressing for success in the work environment. Those are basically the dos. Today, however, we are going to go in the other direction: the don'ts. In short, you want avoid like the plague anything that does not translate into professionalism ( DiGiacomo, n.d. ).

Ben Rosett Earlier, we have talked about the importance of non-verbal communication and why it matters in almost every setting, including the workplace. You want to let your colleagues and co-workers know that you take your job seriously and are well suited to perform it (no pun intended). I know, I know, your skills, knowledge and abilities are not necessarily reflected on the way you dress, but on your results instead, right? Right? Well, kind of.

Hi there!!! Have you ever noticed that the use of ties is decaying more and more? this could be a holistic trend towards a new no-dress-code businesses or fresh and casual attires. We are still far behind that point but casual Fridays are a glimpse into how the future is going to look like; lets just don’t go ahead of ourselves yet. Casual friday is becoming a thing now, it’s a trend that it’s going deeper into our offices by the day. The real question here is: how casual is casual Friday? After going through the first eight results pages of “Casual Friday” search on Google (I know, it’s a lot! ), I was not able to find one single result saying that you should relax and go in with your gym clothes to work. Au contraire , almost all the results emphasise on standing out by taking your attire a nudge up on casual Fridays. According to Davis-Ali and O'Brien , you should take three things into consideration when determining the right way to dress on Casual Friday: 1)...

Hello again! You can be neat and tidy when it comes to personal hygiene and clothing because you like the way you look or because it’s your choice but a different thing is being discriminated against just because your employer does not like how you look (may be your beard, your head covering or your conservative outfits). One of the biggest prides of Canada is the diversity of its population. Canada is going the extra mile in order to establish a discrimination-free environment towards globally inclusive workplaces for its citizens. The Canadian Human Resource Management defines discrimination as “ A showing of partiality or prejudice in treatment; specific action or policies directed against the welfare of minority groups.” (Schwind et al. 2016, p. 163) In this post we will go through two of the most common types of discrimination that people in Canada are still facing today in their workplaces due to dress codes policies, even though the Ontario Human Rights Comm...