A third of UK employees (33%) have admitted to working in their pyjamas during shift hours at home, reports Evening Standard, citing research on behalf of Indeed by Censuswide. Indeed surveyed over 1,000 employees and 500 employers in the UK, discovering 33% of workers wear pyjamas during shift hours. Employees don nightwear 46 working days a year on average, with one in 12 wearing pyjamas every day. More than half (53%) of workers admit to wearing ‘scruffier clothes’ on the bottom half while attending work video calls from home.

From the employers’ perspective, nearly half of the bosses surveyed said staff have become too casual since the Covid-19 pandemic due to home-working, with 29% advocating for stricter dress codes. Employers say pyjamas are the most inappropriate work appearance, followed by unwashed or messy hair and 44% say tracksuit bottoms should not be worn. Meanwhile, two in five employers say trainers are inappropriate attire but almost two-thirds of staff wear them while working.