UOE Practice Text 2 – Dress Code

UK companies have received (1) Fill in the blank 1 of 9 (CRITIC) from a business forum for what their report refers to as a rather narrow-minded attitude towards the dress code for office workers.
This follows a case in which a male (2) Fill in the blank 2 of 9 (EMPLOY) working in the post room of a large company in the United Kingdom received a (3) Fill in the blank 3 of 9 (SUSPEND) for wearing jeans to work.
Whilst the report accepts that there is a need for people dealing with (4) Fill in the blank 4 of 9 (CUSTOM) to look well dressed, it questions whether employees who work behind the scenes necessarily need to dress formally.
The authors of the report made a (5) Fill in the blank 5 of 9 (COMPARE) between the UK and other European nations where employers seem (6) Fill in the blank 6 of 9 (CONCERN) about the need for their workers to wear smart clothes in the office. Their (7) Fill in the blank 7 of 9 (ARGUE) is based on research that claims workers are far more (8) Fill in the blank 8 of 9 (PRODUCT) when they have the (9) Fill in the blank 9 of 9 (FREE) to dress in a way that they feel most comfortable in.