Tl;dr: turns out heatwaves can melt dress standards.
One coworker bantered with another yesterday because of the latter wearing shorts, along the lines of “pants or skirts only here”. I pointedly rolled back from my desk to show I was wearing shorts too. He suggested they should all pitch in to get me a Kilt. We met two others on the hallway wearing shorts. I guess he was out of jokes.
In general, the more traditional business dress standards seem to have relaxed these last weeks. Particularly when women wear short pants, pencil skirts are swapped for loose ones and summer dresses replace pantsuits, that indicates they’re less worried about comments than about heat stroke and I don’t think it’s just due to shifting workplace culture.
(Though I do hope that this is also indicative of a shifting workplace culture; there is a push for more progressive policies but I don’t think I need to elaborate on the resilience of some mentalities.)
My workplace put out an internal notice of how to deal with the heat. One of the points is “Adjust Dresscode”.
Yep, that’s certainly one way of putting it.
That is bravely vague xDD
Tl;dr: turns out heatwaves can melt dress standards.
One coworker bantered with another yesterday because of the latter wearing shorts, along the lines of “pants or skirts only here”. I pointedly rolled back from my desk to show I was wearing shorts too. He suggested they should all pitch in to get me a Kilt. We met two others on the hallway wearing shorts. I guess he was out of jokes.
In general, the more traditional business dress standards seem to have relaxed these last weeks. Particularly when women wear short pants, pencil skirts are swapped for loose ones and summer dresses replace pantsuits, that indicates they’re less worried about comments than about heat stroke and I don’t think it’s just due to shifting workplace culture.
(Though I do hope that this is also indicative of a shifting workplace culture; there is a push for more progressive policies but I don’t think I need to elaborate on the resilience of some mentalities.)