How do you know a postman when you see one? Simple – he’s wearing an easily recognizable uniform!
The same goes for FedEx personnel in uniform, McDonald’s workers (or any fast-food workers for that matter), and so on. The company image as a whole includes the individual worker, which comes down to how (s)he looks, i.e., their uniform.
So our question really is – do uniforms really make that much of a difference? What is YOUR opinion on this? Why don’t you vote?
Other companies that have uniforms, and who have blogged about it, or employees have blogged about it: The Life of a Greenhouse Grower, Content for Reprint (who talks about making stupid mistakes while wearing a company uniform – how true – an employee is representative of the company after all), IAOCBlog has an article about now taking pictures of yourself wearing a company uniform then blogging (nastily) about the company – it might get you fired, Debt B Gone mentions reclaiming money (£45, UK) for washing company clothes – up to 6 years back.
All in all a lot of the writing about company uniforms in blogs, or online, seems to be mostly minimal, or things you shouldn’t do when wearing one. A lot of that is common sense. Why take pictures of yourself doing something stupid in a company uniform – that’s asking for trouble.
There’s also the recent legal issues regarding the wearing of holy symbols such as crosses, or wearing hijabs (re: British Airways).
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