Management & Work

What Dress Codes for Target, Starbucks Workers Convey About Control

New dress codes are more evidence that bosses are in their command-and-control era
A Target store in Pleasant Hill, California, photographed on May 20, 2025.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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