CLEVELAND — On Monday’s Lunch Break with Jay Crawford, Jay and 3New’s Maureen Kyle chewed over a trend showing people are willing to accept lower pay in exchange for wearing casual clothes to the office.
A new survey found employees are willing to sacrifice up to $5,000 in salary to dress casually, and that employees are also avoiding jobs at places that never have a designated casual work day.
Even with that trend, 65 percent of people surveyed say they still dress up for a job interview.
Robert Glazer, author of Performance Partnerships, thinks it could work in some cases, but not all.
“If you’re a software firm and you want people in there coding in t-shirts, in shorts and have their dogs and stuff, that’s great and that might work,” Glazer said.
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