Creating a Dress Code that Includes Jeans

Believe it or not, jeans and Generation Y are two very hot topics, and Generation Y wearing jeans to work is even hotter. In fact, my blog, Five Reasons You Should Allow Employees to Wear Jeans to Work, has been the most popular out of all my blogs. 

So as a follow-up, I thought I’d give you some ideas for establishing a company dress code that includes jeans. 

Here are ways for you to comfortably add jeans to your company’s dress code: 

• Establish specific rules—If you allow jeans, but establish rules regarding wearing them to the office, employees will obey just so they can wear their jeans. Specific rules could include: Jeans are allowed at work as long as—they don’t have holes, they are pants (not capris, not shorts), they are paired with professional shoes and a professional shirt (no t-shirts, no tank tops, no sneakers, no flip-flops), etc.
  
• Adopt Casual Fridays—Start having casual Fridays where employees can wear jeans to work every Friday.
  
• Host a “Jeans for Charity” Event—Many companies do this as an incentive for employees to not only be able to wear jeans, but to also help out a good cause. There are various ways you can run this type of event: 1) For every $5 an employee donates, they can wear jeans for one day, 2) Have a contest between departments (or between employees) to raise the most money for a charity and the winners get a jeans week (or day), 3) Allow employees to wear jeans on the dates when the charity event is going on (this could be a day, a week or longer even).
  
• Allow Jeans Once a Month—Tell employees they can wear jeans one day a month, and if you’re really generous, let them choose the day, that way you don’t have all your employees wearing jeans on the same day.
  
• Allow Jeans Once a Week—other than a casual Friday, you could allow employees to wear their jeans once a week and let them pick the day.  

These are just a few ideas to get you started. Obviously there are plenty of other ways to allow employees to wear jeans at work. 

And you can always mix-and-match the options. For example, you could have a contest between employees/departments to raise the most money for a charity where the winners get a jeans week, and they get to choose which week they want to wear them or they get to split up the five days into one jeans day for five weeks, etc.

Believe it or not, jeans and Generation Y are two very hot topics, and Generation Y wearing jeans to work is even hotter. In fact, my blog, Five Reasons You Should Allow Employees to Wear Jeans to Work, has been the most popular out of all my blogs.