It will cost your business a fair amount of money to pay of the workwear. For example, workwear in Manchester will cost around a quarter of the price more in comparison to the non-embroidered/logoed item, but the benefits outweigh the costs.
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Why might a business consider branded workwear
1. Why Might A Business Consider Branded Workwear?
2. • Depending on your experience, you might or might not think that a
uniform is a good idea in the workplace. When you think about it, though,
most workplaces do have a uniform – even if it’s not formally endorsed.
For example, an office worker doesn’t have a uniform per se, but they
actually do when they’re expected to wear shirts and trousers. In fact, the
vast majority of us do wear uniforms.
• If you’re business owner and you're in two minds about whether to kit
your staff out with uniforms, then you might find this article useful in
making up your mind. Below, we are going to explore the numerous
reasons why uniforms work well in a work place.
3. 1.Branding and advertising
• There’s probably no better way to talk to you as a business owner than to
use these key phrases, eh? Branding and advertising are the lifeblood of
most businesses. Without them, you would soon plunge into the depths of
obscurity.
• While you do have to pay for the branded uniform, it still represents a
cheap avenue for advertising and branding. Your staff are literally your
billboard. Everywhere they go, they are advertising the business.
4. 2. Camaraderie and friendship
• A uniform actually helps to promote a sense of belonging. It is especially
important with new employees. As soon as they put on that uniform and
mingle with other uniform wearers, they will feel part of the group – they’ll
still feel a bit weary, but it will be a comfortable type of weariness.
• Besides uniting new staff with the old, it also helps to facilitate feeling of
belonging amongst existing employees. It shows that they are all on the
same side, part of one glorious whole.
5. 3. Professionalism and care
• Wearing a uniform at work can help to enhance professionalism.
Employees have to behave or risk being ratted out by members of the
public/other professionals.
• If the name of the business and its contact details are on their clothes,
you know that they will have that little bit more of an incentive to act
with decorum.
• Yes, we know we’re stretching it a little here: of course most of us know
how to behave, but every now and again you find an outlier, and a
uniform can help to contain them.
6. 4. Practical and cost effective
• From the perspective of the employee, a uniform can often feel like a
bonus. This is because the company (i.e. you as their employer) pay for
the uniforms. That means they don’t have to shell out on work clothes.
In a typical office setting, people spend around £400 a year on clothes.
To do away with that by purchasing a uniform for them is a huge
incentive.
• It will cost your business a fair amount of money to pay of the
workwear. For example, workwear in Manchester will cost around a
quarter of the price more in comparison to the non-
embroidered/logoed item, but the benefits outweigh the costs. Just as
an example, a Fruit of the Loom jumper typically costs £8, but with
embroidery, £10 (and the prices falls the more you buy). It’s more
expensive, but you gain all of the benefits mentioned above.