An outdated dress code for new media company IBT
The handful of Newsweek emp🍃loyees who are being offered jobs by new owner IBT Media may be disheartened when they hear about the digital company’s 1950s-🐻era dress code.
No mini skirts, denim jeans or bare midriffs are allowed — and when it come🎃s to🅺 hair, only a “natural color” will do.
IBT, a digital firm that publishes the International Business Times, also has a strict policy on reimbursements that looks like i🅺t might have been hatched back in the go-go ’80s — setting low limits on how much can be spent on meals.
A lot of the “entertaining” may have to be done at Applebee’s༺ or M🍒cDonald’s.
In New York, the reimbursement rate is set at $15 per individual meal and a whopping $85 when entertaining a guest — not exactly the Four Seasons day rate. In Phoenix, the pe꧂rsonal reimbursement is $9, but it’s $50 if a guest tags along, according to the employee ha꧂ndbook.
✃Acco🔯rding to the IBT employee handbook, obtained by Media Ink:
— Open toe sandals are not permitted.
— Body piercing (other than earrings) should no𒁏t be visible.
— Inappropriately dressed employees will be asked to return home to change into suitable clothiꦚng.
— Tattoos must be covered.
Also on the banned list: “denim jeans, sweat shirts, low rise pants, sneakers, sandals, flip flops, halter tops, camisoles, baseball caps, sweat suits, T-shirts, tank tops, micro mini skirts, shorts or anythi𒁃ng else that is deemed unpro🐬fessional or excessively distracting are inappropriate business attire and should not be worn to work.”
The new owners, who are set to take ov🍃er from Barry Diller’s IAC on Oct. 1, also seem to frown on excessive perfume, cologne and other scented products.