What kind of companies will set dressing codes for their workers?

First of all, everyone is rational or at least they make independent decisions to maximize individuals’ profits. Some companies and organizations have set dressing codes for their employees to follow, some do not have more flexible dressing codes. In addition, people can use different work dressing to identify their work. Some people just feel that dressing codes do not have any actual benefits, this opinion is wrong.

We should not question the benefits of any policy taken by companies, because any policy that is made by companies must match the interests of the companies. Dressing codes have several benefits for companies. Firstly, dressing codes can help to attract more clients. Having formal dressing code can provide companies’ clients with a sense of professional, for example, the majority of the employees of banks wear suits for their work, this could make their employees. Sometimes dressing codes help clients to know the services provided by different employees with different dressing, for example, cooks and waiters have different dressing and customers can know their jobs from their dressing. In addition, employees can use their dressing to establish close relationship with their clients. For example, in a company, the department which has the most casual dressing code is its tech division or tech related divisions. There has been a culture in the tech sector that few people wear formal suits for work. Therefore, it will be awkward for people to wear formal suits to meet their clients from the tech sector and wearing casual clothes can bring the relationship closer. Recently the Goldman Sachs also relaxes its dressing code for its tech division. Secondly imposing a dressing code is a strategy to keep a sense of unity and hierarchy in the company. When employees wear similar clothes, they are more likely to feel they all belong to one organisation or company. Moreover, they may feel proud of their working places and wearing uniform with their company badges can make they feel more proud. This could increase incentives to work harder for their companies. In addition, the differences in uniform could tell employees’ ranks in their companies, it could notify employees that they need to work harder to get promoted in order to receive the same rank as someone around him/her. It increases the competition within the companies and is likely to improve productivity.

After having discussed the benefits that could be brought by corporate dressing code, it is not hard to see that large companies are more interested in imposing  corporate dressing codes to provide a sense of unity and hierarchy within the companies. However, the function of dressing code to attract clients implies without the dressing code imposed by the company, employees are still likely to self-adopt a similar dressing code to boost their performances if their incomes are dependent on their performances. For example, even in the financial sector, the relationship managers who is dealing with clients from the tech sector wears very different clothes than those who are dealing with the clients with sovereign background.