Staff Strip Naked to Improve Morale 19
A marketing company in Newcastle got rid of Hawaiian shirt Fridays and their pants while they were at it in an attempt to improve morale. Naked Friday was the brainchild of business psychologist, David Taylor. He convinced the folks at design and marketing onebestway that stripping off their pants would also strip away walls blocking good communication. Nearly everyone went the full monty at the office, with only one man and two women choosing to wear underwear. Sam Jackson, 23, the house manager, was the only woman to go fully naked. She said, "It was brilliant. Now that we've seen each other naked, there are no barriers."
Uhh... (Score:3, Insightful)
Is that a good idea for those with ugly bodies, especially from /.'ers? :P
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Yes, I don't think my workplace would be too happy if those of us in the IT department were to disrobe :)
The only pink I would be seeing would be in my mailbox tray :(
Now slide off your panties. Slowwwly. (Score:4, Funny)
"Everyone" and gender ratio (Score:1)
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nearly all the staff took off all their clothes â" except for one man, who wore a posing pouch, and one of two female workers, who kept on black underwear.
Sam Jackson went fully nude, while the other woman wore underwear.
Pics or... (Score:1)
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TFA: "The experiment in April was filmed for a one-off TV show, Naked Office, to be screened on July 9 on cable channel Virgin 1."
Office Space (Score:3, Funny)
Been there, done that (Score:2, Interesting)
At the Debian conference in Helsinki, we moved a few discussion groups into the sauna. It was highly productive, and the flame wars didn't restart for two weeks after the conference.
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At the Debian conference in Helsinki, we moved a few discussion groups into the sauna. It was highly productive, and the flame wars didn't restart for two weeks after the conference.
What happened?
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This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsYMBYhcO8I [youtube.com]
To be followed by oral sex Friday... (Score:5, Funny)
Fine with me, as long as it's not communication of disease!
AFAIK, oral "is" a barrier to communication (Score:3, Funny)
I'm not quite sure how oral sex is performed in your corner of the world, but over here it would get in the way of communication.
And polite people don't talk with their mouth full.
In general this would get complex, with all the no smoking laws it would mean you'd have to provide nicotine patches for afterwards..
OK, OK, I'm going already :-)
Not my office/Baby Oil... (Score:1, Informative)
So, I don't want to mean, but there is a coworker here (who shared voluntarily) that she needs extra breaks, because apparently sometimes if you have very... 'large legs', they can chafe. So she says she has to go to the bathroom every hour or so and put baby oil between them to keep the lubricated.
Nice of her to share that, but I'm guessing she's not the only one in our office that performs this.
Poor janitors. (Score:1)
Won't someone please consider the poor cleaning crew that has to hose everything down after work? *shudder*
Ack! (Score:1)
Wow. I've been stuck here for 15 minutes having horrible visions of my coworkers naked.
Must... make... it... stop...
Aiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!