Why Are Dress Codes Important

Dress codes are a massively controversial idea that have recently gotten an enormous amount of attention. The idea that a school, or in this case a business, can tell someone what they can and cannot wear seems inappropriate. However, once one realizes the actual use of dress codes and the benefits of enforcing them they can start to appreciate these sometimes-dreaded set of rules. They serve a purpose, of course, naturally without a purpose they would not be implemented, some ways that dress codes benefit employees are by providing a baseline for what to wear every day. This can take out much confusion to first time employees. Another way they can help is by making sure that employees do not put themselves or others in danger by wearing clothes
In the corporate world, time is money, and anyone who has ever worked in a professional environment probably realized that many employees do not make the most of their time. Of course, there are outliers and overachievers, who make it their focus to be successful, but in general many employees lack a good work ethic. This may seem irrelevant; however, where dress codes come in is that they minimize distractions for employees, who already waste a lot of time, to waste even more time. Imagine how much of a disaster, from a productivity point of view, it would be for someone to walk into the office with an offensive picture on their shirt. That person and their outfit would be the "talk of the town" around the office and would virtually destroy that day's production possibility. In this instance, dress codes are necessary because they prevent from having even more distractions within the
Almost any business will proclaim that their number one focus is safety. This mainly applies to manual labor; however, can be applied to almost any profession. People's safety might be the one thing that some businesses value over money, possibly because in the long run it saves them money, but that is irrelevant. If it was not monitored, people would often forget or even not care and wear clothes that puts themselves or other employees in danger. For example, for most people it is common knowledge that one should not wear jewelry, baggy clothes, or long hair around machines; however, there are most definitely people who do not and therefore if not monitored could put themselves at risk of an injury. Workplace safety is a massive part of the workplace and one of the most important ways of keeping people safe is by implementing, and enforcing, a dress