WORDS Haven Staff
PHOTOGRAPH Ella Doyle
Super Casual Thursday Destroyer Media and Marketing, the parent company for Haven and LKLD Magazines, is a considerably progressive workplace. We have a four-day workweek, swear like sailors, occasionally drink on the job, play loud music, and don’t have a strictly enforced dress code policy. It’s not unusual to walk into the Haven office and see someone dressed in a power suit for a meeting and someone else in sweats working on the magazine’s layout or writing a story. I’m wearing sweats right now, in fact. Tomorrow… I won’t be wearing anything. That’s because Thursday is the only day of the week that a dress code (or lack thereof rather) is enforced.
Thursday.’ The Super Casual Thursday work model is this: we work our butts off… with nothing on our butts. One study by the Harvard’s Institute for Efficiency and Satisfaction in the Workplace showed that “For every ‘extra’ piece of clothing worn, an employee is 4% less efficient. When you think of underwear, pants, shirt, belt, jacket, tie, etc., those percentages add up,” according to the study’s lead researcher, Hugh G. McKnockers. We took a vote and put that study to the test in our office. Haven increased overall efficiency by around 37% percent with just one nude day during the workweek. How do you think we produce two magazines each month with such a small staff? Totally naked. That’s how.
Because of our four-day work week, Thursday is our ‘Friday.’ So, instead of casual Friday, we opted for ‘Super Casual
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