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From: psrc@mtunq.ATT.COM (Paul Chisholm)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Dress code
Summary: how about a dress-down code?!
Keywords: dress code
Message-ID: <1192@mtunq.ATT.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 90 04:13:05 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In the Computer Systems business unit of AT&T's Data Systems Group, top
management (Rich McGinn, the president of the business unit) has turned
this old burden on its ear.  Mondays and Fridays are designated
"dress down" days.  Anyone not coming into direct customer contact on
those days is *encouraged* to dress casually.  We had a video "team
meeting" broadcast from CS headquarters Friday, and few people in the
audience were wearing suits or ties.  (McGinn and his VP's wore suits,
out of consideration to the sales staff who were watching, or some
such.)

Needless to say, he didn't have to tell us Bell Labs types twice!

Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T Bell Laboratories, who wore a quasi-Western
shirt, blue jeans, and tennis shoes to the office today.
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