{"id":7825,"date":"2017-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/man-sent-home-for-wearing-shorts-to-work-comes-back-in-a-pink-dress\/"},"modified":"2017-06-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T05:00:00","slug":"man-sent-home-for-wearing-shorts-to-work-comes-back-in-a-pink-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/hr\/man-sent-home-for-wearing-shorts-to-work-comes-back-in-a-pink-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sent home for wearing shorts to work comes back in a pink dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does your office have a dress code? Relaxing the dress code for the summer, or when there are extreme variations in weather, can make a big impact on employee morale. And whatever your dress code, make sure it&#8217;s equal for men and women. England is currently experiencing a bit of a heat wave, and this call centre worker gained international attention for protesting his office&#8217;s dress code which forbid men from wearing shorts but allowed women to wear dresses.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4621940\/Worker-sent-home-wearing-shorts-comes-dress.html\">Man sent home for wearing shorts to work comes back in a pink dress<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Joey Barge, 20, from Buckinghamshire, turned up in a pair of smart blue shorts But bosses deemed them inappropriate despite the sweltering heat They sent him home &#8211; but he came back wearing a bright pink dress in &#8216;protest&#8217; Act of defiance sparked a change in the rules which Joey branded a &#8216;partial win&#8217; A defiant call centre worker who was sent home for wearing shorts to the office in this week&#8217;s heatwave came back wearing a bright pink dress as a &#8216;protest&#8217; against the dress code.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does your office have a dress code? Relaxing the dress code for the summer, or when there are extreme variations in weather, can make a big impact on employee morale. And whatever your dress code, make sure it&#8217;s equal for men and women. England is currently experiencing a bit of a heat wave, and this call centre worker gained international attention for protesting his office&#8217;s dress code which forbid men from wearing shorts but allowed women to wear dresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/594a9456e92b941a0753de10-506-253\/a-man-wore-a-dress-to-work-after-he-was-sent-home-for-wearing-shorts-to-protest-his-offices-sexist-dress-code.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[226,298],"class_list":{"0":"post-7825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hr","8":"tag-culture","9":"tag-off-beat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}