Top-tier Tightwad Freehills, having already smothered office morale with a pay-freeze announced just three months

MC Hammer - keen to project a professional image

The queer musings of self-proclaimed  ‘people partner’ Peter Butler have raised questions over the future of the weekly tradition.  In an interview with the Financial Review 22/05, Butler fondly recalled:

going out on Friday nights in the 90’s and finding bars filled with young male workers , their sleeves rolled up, white shirts pulled out, ties loose and the top button undone.

Later in the article, Butler openly lamented the loss of the 90’s look and signalled the possible end of Friday fun-day, by saying:

It was almost like a uniform and it was a symbol of how these things are - that they’d been working, and working pretty hard. Maybe that’s a symbol that people in that sort of economic environment are very keen to project and we’ll see it again, I’m sure.

Does your firm enjoy casual-Friday?

Is it appropriate in these troubled economic times to suffocate office morale by forcing workers to abandon casual-Friday and wear professional attire when there is little or no work to do?

Would the Freehills people partner’  benefit from a viewing of MC Hammer’s music video ‘Cant Touch This’?

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