It’s true how you look affects how you work. Science backs it up. Researchers studying the links to what work clothes people wear, brain activity and productivity have found dressing up for work improves performance. They’re now paying attention to how this applies to Zoom-type meetings.
Source: Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2020. Link. “Just putting on [formal] clothes doesn’t matter as much as if you’re just as confident when you’re wearing casual clothes and you feel you can work just as well that way,” says Vanessa Bohns, . . . at Cornell . . . Yet she recommends changing into clothing associated with work at the beginning of the day to cue a sense of being in serious work mode. “You feel physically different, and the clothes feel different so that tells your body, which also tells your mind, that this is work time.”