> stiff and formal
Maybe people should wear suits and ties then. You know, to make it abundantly clear that the workplace is a stiff and formal environment.
Corporate leadership is responsible for setting tone in the workplace, and the ethos that has been paraded in Silicon Valley since its birth is that everyone is a friendly collaborator, that ideas and people flow freely from company to company, as if in a casual manner, and the dress code reflected that.
Turning anything in SV into "stiff and formal" goes against SV's cultural soul.
> Maybe people should wear suits and ties then. You know, to make it abundantly clear that the workplace is a stiff and formal environment.
Suits and ties are a step in the right direction, but I think what many of us would really like to see are non-gendered company uniforms along with well defined personal style guidelines (hair, makeup, et al)
If you're used to the workplace mimicking the conventions of subcultures you belong to, the transition will be a drag, but, if you're alienated from the dominant workplace subculture, probably a breath of fresh air.