Dress down days are great--It gives me one less day to have to iron a shirt or take it to the cleaners for them to do it.

However, why is there always that ONE person who comes dressed to work in jogging pants with holes, appearing as if they don't wear underwear (nice visual for either sex huh?), flip flops (the kind that are as loud as possible, not the quiet kind you wear at home), a raggedy t-shirt that is from a rock concert they attended (10 years ago)... and they never comb their hair, which i'm guessing, is because it was never washed.

Dress down days are like left lanes...you have to really know what they mean, so let me offer my help...

A left lane is a "passing lane"...This means you can pass someone else, and go in front of them... it's not the NASCAR lane, where you can drive 145, and flash your lights at the poor slob only going 90mph who is "in your way" because "it's your lane."

Dress down days mean "dress down"...like jeans, penny loafers I guess (although I think those are really stupid looking) and a t-shirt, maybe with a collar for guys, maybe not--but at least clean, nice and free of Rock and Roll tour dates.

Dress down means dress down, not "No Shower Day"

And I'm the farthest thing from a sexist, but I'm going to say it because no one else has the cajones to do it...

Dress down days for women doesn't mean "Boob Display Day"... Invest in a bra, it's a good investment.

I wear jeans on as dress-down days and also on just plain inappropriate days as much as possible!! LOL!

gives a break from a hard week.

I work for a vet so scrubs are the common clothing...

I would love to have a casual day. But I like work attire as well. All would be acceptable to me.

EVERYDAY 4 ME! I MUST B COMFORTABLE AT WORK OR ELSE I DON'T/WON'T WORK 2 MY FULL POTENTIAL...WHUT'Z THA BIG DEAL?

Yes, gives people a chance to relax and feel at home at work.

Need I say more.

Ha ha every day is casual day at my work!

I have found in my last couple of workplaces that "Dress-Down Days" or "Casual Fridays" move from the motivational phase into the entitlement phase in about a month.  Then again, in most workplaces, dress codes are a fairly silly idea anyway.

Fortunately "creative professionals" rarely have to dress up at work. :P

Im a lifeguard on a nude beach....

Actually in a good share of offices you see people wearing jeans quite often, and I don't really see anything wrong with this as long as the individual is clean and neat.

you want to motivate employees? pay them better.

Ok, here's the deal people.  Most idiot companies are determined to control as many facets of your life as they possibly can, period. If they could control how you dress AWAY from work they would, and don't doubt it!  True, some problem employees need to be kept in line, but to treat everybody like cattle, which is what EVERY company tends to do, is insulting.  I believe that if an employee shows common sense in his appearance, and dresses correctly for whatever job he may have, then he should be allowed to wear whatever he pleases, within reason.  But policies such as ONLY white dress shirts, ties and blue slacks are controling, ignorant, insulting BS!  Life is too short for adult people to be treated like school children wearing their little bitty uniforms everyday to please some bonehead who hasn't got a clue!  Remember, the only thing in life that you truly own is your self respect, and if you give that away, you have nothing.

MCI-Worldcom stole the life savings of its employees, but they did get Dress-down Fridays, where they could wear jeans and dispense with the ties...those that didn't get fired, that is...YEAHHH!!!! Ain't capitalism great?

Ah...NO! I like the idea of a leave-me-the-hell-alone day instead.

Depends on what the job is. If your in a job working directly with customers, it will decrease the image and attitude of the company.

i had my own dress down day last summer when it was almost 115 degrees outside. in the afternoon i changed from slacks and a dress shirt to shorts and a muscle shirt. my manager at the time dressed like an undertaker, even on the hottest days. the look on his face when he saw me was priceless; i think i took five years off his life.

Dress down days help you be yourself around your co-workers for at least one day. If you just dress down for one day out of the week, then people can see a little more of what you are like outside of work. For the other 4 days of work they get to see the more serious side of you. It is important to try to look nice, but you can do that with casual cloths also, not just dress cloths.

Overrated 90's crap. I'm tired of everyone dressing like s#$% on Friday. At work, I dress like I'm at work. At the bar or death-metal concert, I wear leather. Never the two shall meet

Yeah, like being allowed to wear jeans every Friday really ups the morale level when every other department in the building ALWAYS wears jeans. While I see a need to dress nicely when you're dealing with customers, I think working around heavy machinery shouldn't require me to dress up.

I've never found this to be a big thrill. It's like a grocery store being able to sell wine and beer 6 days a week but not on Sunday. There's a hint of hypocrisy in the whole thing like being required to force a smile. Also, it begs the question - if I work in the kind of environment (i.e., basically out of the public eye) where casual clothes are fine and dandy one day a week then, why am I wearing dress clothes the other four days? I say unless clothes are job related, why not lighten up and let people follow their own fashion sensibilities? I actually worked in a dorky place for about a year once where they tried to boost moral by declaring one day a week Funny Hat Day (I kid you not). Uh, I dont know about you but I'm pretty sure thats dangerously close to Humiliate the Employee Day - or maybe Celebrate the Managements Retardation Day.

If somebody ordered me to wear jeans to work on Friday, I would quit. Casual Fridays always backfires for a company anyway. People abuse it and end up donning something that is so inappropriate, that it ends up causing a SITUATION between management and the employees. I once saw a young secretary come in wearing shortalls and a tank top (she did look rather cute though).

A few years back I had a job with the state. Since all state jobs are union, and unions fight for employee benefits, every so-called privilege that you get is considered to be a hard-fought W for the union. Well one of those W's was a dress-down day on Friday where you could wear jeans to work. Being fresh out of college I had my own ideas about the workforce and I didn't see it as professional to wear jeans to the office, so I didn't. And did I hear it from my coworkers! Many confronted me, especially the union reps, saying the union fought hard to give me the privilege of wearing jeans to work on Friday's, and me wearing dress pants was a slap in everyone's face. So this was certainly no motivator or reward - I was actually forced to wear jeans. What a bunch of garbage. If I could go back in time I would have worn a tux on Friday's.

Dress down days are depressing, unless dress down day is every day. There's nothing worse than being with the same company for a couple of years, and seeing the same tired old jeans on your coworker every single Friday. In my last job, I made a point to never dress down on dress down days - fight the damn power.