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Flip flops at work??
Just something to talk about, discuss!!
Short article below from Today Show website:
It?s summertime and the living is easy, but that doesn?t mean your co-workers want to hear the thwack-thwack of your flip-flops coming down the cubicle farm.
A new survey from staffing firm Adecco finds that around three-fourths of Americans think it?s OK for both men and women to dress more casually at work in the summer.
But there?s a big difference between ?office casual? and ?what I?m wearing to the beach after work.?
Flip-flops are the biggest office ?don?t,? with 71 percent of adults surveyed saying the footwear is inappropriate for work. That?s slightly more than those who think miniskirts are inappropriate office wear, according to the Adecco survey.
Strapless tops and dresses were also slightly lower on the list, with 66 percent saying that they were inappropriate.
A little over half said that shorts are also an office no-no.
Are bare toes really more inappropriate than bare shoulders? It appears that it?s not so much the toes as the footwear itself that is such an office annoyance. Only 31 percent of respondents were opposed to open-toed shoes in general.
It should also be noted that far more women than men are against miniskirts and strapless tops.
The telephone survey of 1,000 adults was conducted in June.
Re: Flip flops at work??
I think it depends where you work. I used to wear regular (ie cheap old navy) flip flops on Fridays and something similar to the picture below every day in the summer. We also did not have clients come in the office. I would have never worn a tube style top but a few did wear tasteful tanks.
Definitely not flip flips at my work! We have a business casual dress code...but more on the business side than casual. We can wear sandals (sans hose even), but no 'thong' type sandals. Totally fine with that. And honestly, so many people have no business exposing their toes in public anyway so a ban on sandals period in the workplace I'd be fine with.
Too...bare shoulders, too short skirts, ample visible cleavage, etc. also very inappropriate in my workplace.