dress-down Friday

noun

1. a policy adopted by some business organizations of promoting a relaxed atmosphere by allowing employees to wear informal clothing on a Friday

Example Sentences

"You can’t ever assume that having a nice policy or having a wonderfully designed building or having a dress-down Friday will change things," Schwabenland said, and that the only way to address the issue is through the right messaging from leadership and vigilant attention to the organization's culture.

From Washington Post

Dress-down Friday has become dress-down every day in many workplaces, although people who deal with the public are usually still expected to don a tie every morning.

From BBC

It’s not just that the doodle, the corporate-branding equivalent of dress-down Friday, has that naff novelty air about it: all those cute animated Thanksgiving turkeys, faux silent films and puzzle-piece Nietzsches.

From The Guardian

They make you feel a million dollars by showing interest in your life at the coffee machine and send your pulse racing with their fashionable and elegant outfits on dress-down Friday.

From The Guardian

Where once the self-styled Dr Funkenstein would take to the stage in flowing fluorescent African robes or Technicolor sci-fi costumes, tonight he stands before us, three days short of his 72nd birthday, in a voluminous plaid shirt and straw boater as if observing dress-down Friday.

From The Guardian