Over 40 percent of the office workers who responded to a recent online survey said they prefer to wear corporate clothing to work, for the sake of convenience, a local job bank reported Monday. The survey results, however, show that only 39.79 percent of the respondents said they wear a uniform or formal dress to work more than three days per week. According to the online poll conducted by the 1111 job bank July 9-22, 45.02 percent of those polled said they prefer wearing a uniform to work. Among them, 78.85 percent cited 'aversion to having to think about what to wear to work' as the main reason for their preference. Other reasons mentioned included saving money (41.35 percent) and upgrading their professional image (26.92 percent). A cross-analysis of the survey results show that those in management, the service sector and cosmetics, as well as other types of retail sales, most prefer wearing uniforms for work. While most companies do not require their employees to wear uniforms to work, many of them have dress codes to varying degrees, with flip-flops, sandals, hot pants, miniskirts and sleeveless shirts high on the off-limits list. According to the survey, male office workers tend to spend an average of NT$2,365 (US$73.91) on clothing purchases and laundry per month, compared to an average of NT$3,058 spent by female workers in the same category. A total of 1,155 valid samples were collected in the survey, which had a confidence level of 95 percent and a margin of error of 2.88 percentage points. 