Should people with visible face/neck and other tattoos be employed in customer-facing roles?

@zonavar68 No doubt. That being said the idea of optics for companies are often 50 years behind the times.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow You'll find a lot of small retail businesses don't believe that. Same as businesses not hiring trans people.

@zonavar68 business attitudes are weird and tend to lag behind.

I am a photographer and a few years ago there was a "scandal" that the first tattooed models were gracing Bridal magazines even though tattoos among American women is now higher than men 38% vs 32%. And that is not some tiny minority.

@smiler2012 I specifically said 'customer-facing' roles for that reason. In many jobs, people with lots of tattoos on arms/legs/etc. are required to cover them as a condition of employment. Face/neck ones are a lot harder to conceal, same as having excessive body jewelery, etc. on the face etc. areas.

@zonavar68 why should they cover them if the tattoos are not suggesting anything that may offend 🤷

@smiler2012 businesses have the right to specify whatever standards of presentation they deem necessary. Including whether or not visible body art besides basic things is acceptable. They can hire or not accordingly. In my job being industrial plenty of people have visible tattoos but when I used to drive passenger trains staff in frontline passenger facing roles were required to not have visible tattoos.