The Independent Business suits, starched shirts, ties and pantyhose may be headed toward extinction in today's business world as more and more companies implement casual dress days or policies. But the concept of traditional business attire is alive and well in some Grand Island businesses. We don't set aside a day for casual dress. I think it's an image worth portraying. The bank shares the expense of the ensemble with the employees.
Men wear their own selection of traditional business shirts, coats and ties.
The standard professional dress policy is also in place at Home Federal. Both banks allow casual days on select occasions through the year, including the day of a big Husker football game. Halloween is also a more casual day at Five Points, and the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve day, when the bank closes early, are usually casual days at Home Federal. Those policies are quite different from many of today's businesses. Land's End, a national leader in casual clothing sales, conducted a recent study of human resource managers at Fortune 500 companies.