Naked Friday at the Naked Office
The Office is a world-famous British comedy series about goings-on at a company office, which launched the international career of Ricky Gervais. It was so popular that the United States had it remade in an adaptation to local situations, with Steve Carrell in the lead role.
The kind of office I mention here, is also on television, but it is a real office, at a real company, with real people, not actors. A British ad agency felt it would be a valid experiment to see if people interacted better if they were working naked. So what did they do? Instead of instituting a casual Friday, as many companies in the West do, they went one step further and launched a Naked Friday.
That's right, on Friday, all employees at the company can work without anything on. Nobody is forced to participate, and two members of the staff chose to stop at their underwear. The result of the experiment will be shown on a TV show, "The Naked Office," on British station Virgin 1 on July 9.
While I don't know whether working naked really improves the environment, the show is likely to help the positive image of nudity. You don't have to look like a supermodel to be nude, and doing things nude, from the obvious like swimming and sunbathing, to cycling and now working should not sound as crazy as it still does.
If you live outside Great Britain, you probably won't be able to watch the show, but in the meantime you can read reports from the Daily Mail at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article_1197064/Are-brave-mad-Office-workers-naked-boost-team-spirit.html and from a broadcasting site at http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/broadcasters/multichannel/virgin-1-marks-relaunch-with-naked-office-doc/5001874.article. The TV show site is at http://www.virgin1.co.uk/shows/naked-office/gallery.php
The kind of office I mention here, is also on television, but it is a real office, at a real company, with real people, not actors. A British ad agency felt it would be a valid experiment to see if people interacted better if they were working naked. So what did they do? Instead of instituting a casual Friday, as many companies in the West do, they went one step further and launched a Naked Friday.
That's right, on Friday, all employees at the company can work without anything on. Nobody is forced to participate, and two members of the staff chose to stop at their underwear. The result of the experiment will be shown on a TV show, "The Naked Office," on British station Virgin 1 on July 9.
While I don't know whether working naked really improves the environment, the show is likely to help the positive image of nudity. You don't have to look like a supermodel to be nude, and doing things nude, from the obvious like swimming and sunbathing, to cycling and now working should not sound as crazy as it still does.
If you live outside Great Britain, you probably won't be able to watch the show, but in the meantime you can read reports from the Daily Mail at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article_1197064/Are-brave-mad-Office-workers-naked-boost-team-spirit.html and from a broadcasting site at http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/broadcasters/multichannel/virgin-1-marks-relaunch-with-naked-office-doc/5001874.article. The TV show site is at http://www.virgin1.co.uk/shows/naked-office/gallery.php
Labels: Great Britain, Ricky Gervais, Steve Carrell, The Naked Office, The Office, Virgin 1

