Casual Friday - Bread and Circuses
Channel: Daily Insight
Date: 2017-06-13

In recent years, many office workers have been participating in a weekly event called “Casual Friday”. For those of you who haven’t worked in an office, the premise of casual Friday is that instead of dressing in formal attire as you would Monday through Thursday, you can wear something more casual on Fridays. Companies claim they are doing it to allow their staff to feel more comfortable on a Friday. My question is, “Why only Friday?”. If companies truly cared about their workers, why not allow employees to dress casually every day? As I hinted at in the title, this is simply an a example of Bread and Circuses. This is a term that arose during the reign of the Roman Empire. The Roman government would hand out free food and put on extravagant events to keep the populace happy. It was usually used as a distraction to keep the citizens from focussing on the real issues that plagued their society. If the Roman people realised they were poor with little food and saw Roman politicians strutting around in fine clothes and eating imported fruit, then they might just become angry and try to overthrow the government. By having free bread thrown at them occasionally and free shows to go and see, the bulk of people were of the opinion, “The Roman government is good and looks after me. If they were bad, why would they give me free bread?”. Companies who “let” their workers wear casual clothes on Friday are no different from the Roman emperors who occasionally “let” their citizens eat free bread. They’re attempting to convince their workers that the company is good and gives their workers a lot of freedom. But nothing could be further from the truth. The company does not care about its workers. It only cares about its profits. If it has to allow its workers to wear some casual clothes on Friday just to keep them happy, then so be it. Obviously, most people don’t want to be stuck in a cubicle all day doing some menial task. It’s these little niceties like casual Friday that keep us drudging along.

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