Body art no longer has any stigma in the labor market, new research suggests.
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Michael T. French of the University of Miami and colleagues surveyed more than 2,000 people in the United States and found that those with tattoos were no less likely to be employed than their uninked counterparts, and that average earnings were the same for both groups. In fact, tattooed men were slightly more likely to have jobs than other men. The conclusion: A tattoo won’t hurt your job prospects.
A version of this article appeared in the November–December 2018 issue (pp.30–31) of Harvard Business Review.
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Alison Beard is an executive editor at Harvard Business Review and previously worked as a reporter and editor at the Financial Times. Amom of two, she tries—and sometimes succeeds—to apply management best practices to her household.
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