{"id":1003926,"date":"2026-04-20T10:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003926"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:52:31","slug":"lenskart-apologises-releases-new-workplace-style-guide-after-religious-symbol-row-leads-to-online-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/20\/lenskart-apologises-releases-new-workplace-style-guide-after-religious-symbol-row-leads-to-online-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenskart apologises, releases new workplace style guide after religious symbol row leads to online backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following massive online backlash over a purported internal grooming document, eyewear retailer Lenskart has issued a public apology and released a standardised &#8216;In-Store Style Guide&#8217; that allows employees to wear religious and cultural symbols at work. <\/p>\n<p>The issue surfaced earlier this week after a document, claimed to outline Lenskart\u2019s employee grooming rules, spread widely across social media platforms. Several users alleged that the guidelines discouraged staff from wearing certain religious symbols, especially the bindi and tilak. The claims quickly triggered criticism online, with many people expressing anger and some calling for a boycott of the eyewear brand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following massive online backlash over a purported internal grooming document, eyewear retailer Lenskart has issued a public apology and released a standardised &#8216;In-Store Style Guide&#8217; that allows employees to wear religious and cultural symbols at work. The issue surfaced earlier this week after a document, claimed to outline Lenskart\u2019s employee grooming rules, spread widely across social media platforms. Several users alleged that the guidelines discouraged staff from wearing certain religious symbols, especially the bindi and tilak. The claims quickly triggered criticism online, with many people expressing anger and some calling for a boycott of the eyewear brand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}