I removed mine back in 1990(ish), while I continued to be an IT consultant for another 11 years.
For a while I was the only male NOT wearing a tie or jacket in a company that required it.
And I still got offered a manager spot (on the condition that I start wearing a suit and tie).
Thankfully, even though it’s a “white collar” job I’ve never had to wear a tie regularly. 'course, I think it’s idiotic to make your employees wear business formal attire for non-customer-facing positions.
OP, do you live in the 1950s?
(yeah I know there are a fair amount of places that still have tie culture but it’s hardly what it used to be)
What is a “tie”? 
I never take my tie off. Right now I’m on the computer in sweat pants, Old Chicago t-shirt, and a necktie.
Ties are required in the dress code for my company’s HQ. They’re only required at the site I work at when clients are visiting. The thinking is apparently along the lines of:
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I never have to wear one to work unless I’ve got customer meetings scheduled. When I did have to wear them to work, I was the one perpetually with an unbuttoned top button and rolled up sleeves. Hell, where I grew up, when you wanted to be seen as working hard, then you rolled your sleeves up. Hence the expressions that play off of that.
I’m a middle school teacher. I take my tie off at what I consider “days end.” Which is usually about 4 pm. School gets out at three, but there is still of chance of someone wanting to talk with you until about 4. However, it gets loosened during all of my planning periods and at lunch.
I’m also a “sleeves rolled up” guy. Some people think it’s a style thing, but it’s really because my sleeves are an inch or two too short. It’s not easy to find 39 inch sleeves in a shirt. At least in a shirt that I couldn’t ware as a poncho.
Dress code in my workplace is really slack and my department (IT) is particularly sloppy and scruffy. Maybe ten percent of male staff wear shirt and tie.
I wear shirt and tie every day - I have a couple of miles to walk to the station, so I tend to carry my tie rolled up in my pocket until I get to work, to avoid sweaty neck. I arrive at the office before nearly everyone else, so this isn’t a problem.
I don’t take the tie off until I get home, unless it’s blisteringly hot, in which case I may take it off on the homebound train.
They have ‘dress down Fridays’ at my work, which are a joke, as most people dress down every day. I don’t usually observe these, as I don’t feel like I’m at work without my shirt and tie.
Some interesting and slightly amusing misunderstandings happen because of this. In any given meeting, I’m not usually the most senior person present, nor am I usually the organiser, but if I’m the only one wearing a tie, people (especially external suppliers) generally assume I’m in charge.
Superior Court – tabs
Provincial Court – tie
Office – neither – don’t wear a nose ring either
Neither Bro wears a tie at work (one is a construction foreman, the other one is the Controller, International, of a smallish family-owned multinational company); in my last job the only guys with ties were either salesmen from other companies or in their first day (huge engineering firm, with subsidiaries in more than 30 countries; we worked in Home Office).
Let’s see, last time I wore a tie for work was… well, never. I only wear them for court, weddings, job interviews and funerals.
Yes, but what part of your body are you wearing the tie? Or do we not want to know?
It’s a strip of coloured cloth mercenaries from Croatia used to wear tied around the neck. Somehow the French turned it into fashion and now people everywhere are doing it. Still, I suppose it has to be more comfortable than ye olde Elizabethan lace collars, so maybe they did us a favour.
If wearing a tie in the wee hours helps you perform your job better, then good for you. For myself, I can’t say that wearing a tie makes me think better.
Query: are pant-suit wearing women more professional if they wearing ties?
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Superior Court – tabs
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What are tabs?
Bands, known as tabs here in Kanukistan, are the flappy dangly things that evolved from the bands that were used to tie ruff to neck:
If I needed a tie for work, which I don’t, I would remove it before I ate dinner and not replace it after. That’s the boundary, when you admit that you’re not going home after dinner, when it become OK to remove your tie.
Similarly, if you have to work on a weekend (when you are not normally scheduled to work weekends), it is permissible to dispense with the tie, and, possibly, the jacket, depending on how dressy your office is. Shorts are only permitted on days specially designated as “cleanup days” when everyone is going though the old crap and getting rid of most of it.
According to our former CEO, a billionaire, something to protect your buttons from soup. He never wore a tie. Practically no one in the company wore a tie. I haven’t worn a tie at work in well over 20 years, and probably more like 30.
