101 Tips for Telecommuters—Successfully Manage Your Work, Team, Technology and Family

18. Dress for Success (According to the New Rules)

With the advent of casual dress, dressing for success certainly has evolved over the last decade. This could not be more true than for telecommuting, where dress for success rules are driven by what works best for you—what makes you feel best and what helps you work best. And until videoconferencing and videophones are more prevalent in the telecommuting workplace, when you're working at home, you're dressing for you and you alone. (Good news: Even if you utilize video communication, it only matters how you look from the waist up!)

The media continue to publish articles about telecommuting with fanciful pictures of telecommuters wearing bathrobes and bunny slippers or floating in a swimming ...