How to Involve Your Staff in Deciding Your Corporate Clothing?

The owners of SMEs or Small and Medium Enterprises have to take several chances and challenges to stay alive in their niche. Apart from this, they have to take several stern decisions (sometimes favored by the employees and sometimes not) to ensure the betterment of the firm as well as the staff. One such decision that is always surrounded by the clouds of uncertainty of employee’s reaction is about implementing the dress code or corporate wear in the company. Often it has been observed that their initial reaction is negative, but eventually, they understand after being told the benefits that they as well as the company can avail.

However, this has to be ensured that before taking any decision, they are informed and in fact, consulted about the type, kind, etc. This way, they’ll feel themselves to be a part of decision-making and accept this change naturally. Experts say that it is also very important to find out the answers of the following questions so that your brand is represented well.

·         What are your main intentions behind this implementation?

·         What colors should be chosen so that your brand gets better exposure and better recognition?

·         How many pieces of clothing should be included?

·         Who are supposed to wear them and when?

·         What is your budget?

·         How you plan to subsidize it and who’ll pay for them?

Questions Regarding Corporate Wear That You Should Ask Your Employees to Know Their Opinion

Here are the top questions that you can place before your employees to know their opinion and thoughts. These opinions are going to help you a lot in taking crucial decisions about corporate clothing.

Question 1

Which of the following factors matters the most and the least?

·         Comfort

·         Style and fitting

·         Fashion

·         Quality

·         Easy to care

Question 2

What accessories do they think should be allowed along with corporate wear?

Question 3

For their shirts, what fabric would men prefer the most? It should be synthetic fiber, some natural fiber or the blend of both?

Question 4

What would the most preferred fabric for trousers, skirts, dress and other buttons? The options are again same as above, i.e. natural fiber, synthetic fiber or a blend of both.

Question 5

As far as the performance is concerned, how important it is for the corporate wear to be easy to iron? You can ask them to pick between 1 and 5, 5 being very important and 1 being the least important.

Question 6

What would be the most liked fitting process? You can ask them to pick one option.

·         A consultant from corporate clothing manufacturing firm coming and trying on the garments and sizes?

·         A sample being sent to you for testing?

·         You being given a measurement chart and a guide to use it?

Question 7

If you are working for five days, how many pieces would be sufficient for you?

·         Two

·         Three

·         Five

Question 8

A core motive behind this implementation is brand promotion and this would be done by getting the logo, company name, catch line and contact details embroidered. Where would you want them to be embroidered on the corporate wear?