India, March 9 -- A senior manager at Google has said that dressing up and putting on makeup for work - even while working from home - helped her feel more productive, confident and ultimately "more successful". In an as-told-essay published in Business Insider, Anchal Mirza, 36, who has spent over a decade at the tech giant, shared her experience, explaining how maintaining a polished appearance influences her work mindset.

Mirza currently works in strategy and operations, focused on data centre optimisation and efficiency. After relocating with her family to a suburb outside Philadelphia, she now splits her time between remote work and commuting to the New York City office twice a week.

Despite Big Tech's famously casual dress culture...