Casual Friday started in the 1930s when two Stanford engineering graduates founded their small company and spent Monday to Thursday selling their products and then on Friday everyone would help ship the product. The two founders would still wear slacks, but not always a dress shirt, but dressy enough to meet with business associates. Bill (Hewlett) and Dave (Packard) continued the tradition and their company did fairly well for a few decades. Many Silicon Valley companies trace their beginnings to people leaving HP and starting out on their own. And then Carly Fiorina drove HP into the ground. Nowadays Hewlett-Packard seems to be in the business of selling repackaged Canon printers and printer ink.
Casual Friday started in the 1930s when two Stanford engineering graduates founded their small company and spent Monday to Thursday selling their products and then on Friday everyone would help ship the product. The two founders would still wear slacks, but not always a dress shirt, but dressy enough to meet with business associates. Bill (Hewlett) and Dave (Packard) continued the tradition and their company did fairly well for a few decades. Many Silicon Valley companies trace their beginnings to people leaving HP and starting out on their own. And then Carly Fiorina drove HP into the ground. Nowadays Hewlett-Packard seems to be in the business of selling repackaged Canon printers and printer ink.