Casual Apparel in the workplace

What should be worn in the work place has employers and employees finding different views on business dress code which revolve around comfort, work ethic, and overall judgments. Many employers have found that casual apparel promotes laziness, tardiness, reduced productivity, and more flirtatious behaviour in the office; whereas employees find casual apparel to lift employee morale, increase creativity, improve communication throughout the working environment, and casual apparel is less expensive. Many employers set their dress code standards based on customer interaction and under the categories of formal, business casual, and casual. What is and isn’t appropriate is based on what your employer states as the dress code but it really depends on the type of job it is. What do you feel about casual apparel in the work place and how does it affect your job if it does at all?