Reading Your Workplace

Every office has an unwritten dress code spectrum that runs from formal to casual. Your first job is to observe where your office sits on it.

Corporate finance and law still expect suits and formal separates. Tech and creative industries have embraced smart-casual or even casual dress. Most workplaces fall somewhere in between. The safest strategy is overdressing slightly for your first few weeks, then easing toward your office's everyday norm once you have read the room.