{"id":7531,"date":"2008-12-22T18:36:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T18:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/cios_prefer_suits.html"},"modified":"2008-12-22T18:36:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T18:36:52","slug":"cios-prefer-suits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/cios-prefer-suits.html","title":{"rendered":"CIOs Prefer Suits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"225\" width=\"500\" style=\"\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/chart.apis.google.com\/chart?cht=p3&#038;chco=ff0000,00ff00,0000ff&#038;chd=t:35,26,24,9,1,2,3&#038;chs=500x225&#038;chl=Formal|Khakis|Separates|Polo|Other|No%20Pref|NA\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Attention out of work techies. You may want to consider buying a suit and cutting your hair. It seems 35% of CIOs prefer suits followed by 26% for khakis and a collared shirt.<\/p>\n<p>The survey I cite here was done by Robert Half Technology and consists of interviews done with 1,400 CIOs from companies across the US. 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