Casual or formal wear, a dress code is still a must

Lehman Brothers, the US investment bank, has announced that staff should stop dressing down, and return to wearing formal clothing at work.In a memo sent out to all staff, the bank defined formal wear as a suit and tie for men, and a "suit with either a skirt or trousers, or dress" for women.Lehman Brothers was one of the first companies to encourage staff to dress casually during the 'dotcom' boom of the late 1990s. Credit Suisse First Boston and Goldman Sachs have also recently sm... (343 more words)

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