Does your employer have a dress code? If so, does it cover the matter of tatoos and body piercings? Do you think your employer has a right to establish rules on this issue as well for dress?
The Associated Press reports that about half of the people in their 20s have either a tattoo or a body piercing.
This fact, plus the drift from casual to offensive sloppiness in the workplace, is leading more companies to issue dress codes. Some of them are as long as five pages.
One point of view from employees is “So long as I get my job done, who cares about my dress and decorations?” Others agree wih a 24-year old working in a public relations agency, who has tatoos on his stomach, back and ankle, declares, “No one cares what you have on your body as long as (others) don’t have to look at it. I want to be perceived as a professional.”
Some employers are more prone to say “Do whatever you want to your body, but I don’t want to be subjected to it in the workplace.” They feel that body art can be a distraction and especially important when investors and clients visit. The same is true for ultra-casual dress.
Each careerist, of course, has a right to make a choice about dress and body art. It just seems to me, like it or not, it is wise to study the environment in which you work and respect it by conforming. Acceptable appearance in a hot cyberspace business is one thing; it is an entirely different matter in a bank or when calling on professional clients.
What do you think?
Ramon
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