Should bosses be allowed to tell their employees to cut their hair and shave?

[Kuciwalker]

Dress codes (rigid or lax) are just a signaling mechanism. It's not clear to me that they are or aren't efficient choices for one.

[MRT144]

Speaking of which I need to shave and cut my hair tonight.

[MOBIUS]

I have to admit that, more often than not, at work I'm sporting 'designer stubble'...

[Boris Godunov]

So I'm the only one who believes that employers should enforce dress and grooming standards? What happened to places requiring a suit to work?

Should? No, but that's not the question. I can't say whether a company should or shouldn't enforce any particular dress code--that's the company's call, and who am I to say otherwise?

They certainly *can* enforce a dress code, just like a private school can require a uniform. They can also specify other grooming and hygiene standards. Just so long as they don't run afoul of civil rights laws in either case, it's fine.

[Zevico]

If a person faces the customer/client then there should be some guidelines. If not, short of trollish there shouldn't be any guidelines.

UGG SAYS DISCRIMINATION IS WRONG!

[Al B. Sure!]

Dress codes (rigid or lax) are just a signaling mechanism. It's not clear to me that they are or aren't efficient choices for one.

I despise the way your mind works. Who thinks like this?

[Al B. Sure!]

They certainly *can* enforce a dress code, just like a public school can require a uniform.

Fixed. Where have you been? Philly public schools have had uniforms since around 2001 or so. I doubt we're the only city.

[C0ckney]

Should? No, but that's not the question. I can't say whether a company should or shouldn't enforce any particular dress code--that's the company's call, and who am I to say otherwise?

They certainly *can* enforce a dress code, just like a private school can require a uniform. They can also specify other grooming and hygiene standards. Just so long as they don't run afoul of civil rights laws in either case, it's fine.

this is the answer.

[Lorizael]

Dress codes (rigid or lax) are just a signaling mechanism. It's not clear to me that they are or aren't efficient choices for one.

I tend to think they're not efficient, given the wide variety of connotations that clothing can have.

[giblets]

I don't see how shaving or cutting hair helps someone do a desk job, but I don't really care if some employers require it.

[Al B. Sure!]

I tend to think they're not efficient, given the wide variety of connotations that clothing can have.

So nudity?

[KrazyHorse]

I despise the way your mind works. Who thinks like this?

Anybody who aspires to rational decision-making.

[KrazyHorse]

I also find it interesting that albie "despises" analytical thought.

That must be why he relies on concepts like fairness, desert and justice.

[Zevico]

Desert?

[MOBIUS]

He wants to be a marine and they've been fighting in deserts recently. Er...