The dress code faux pas that could be 'strangling' your staff

Ties help your staff to look smart and fit into a professional environment. However, this very common feature of many dress codes could be harming your employees’ cognitive functioning – which includes memory, attention and reasoning.

That’s according to research from Robin Lüddecke in Germany, published in the journal Neuroradiology. The researchers studied 30 young men who either wore ties or went without, and then had their brains looked at in an MRI machine.