Office workers inside of the Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York, September 17, 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson 
 
 (Reuters) - Traditionally buttoned-up Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) has relaxed the dress code for its computer engineers in a bid to attract tech talent with a more casual environment. 
 
 The fifth-largest U.S. bank by assets told employees in its technology division to “exercise judgment in determining when to adapt to business attire,” according to an internal memo from late June seen by Reuters on Thursday. 
 
 It did not specify whether hoodies or sneakers, the ad-hoc uniform of millennial tech workers, constitute acceptable dress. 
 
 The move, one of the first by Goldman’s new chief information officer Elisha Wiesel, comes as the bank makes a push to recruit and keep hold of top tech talent in the face of intensifying competition. 
 
 Goldman and other Wall Street banks have been struggling for years to compete for the best employees with Silicon Valley firms and hedge funds, which often have better hours and workplace perks for top software developers and engineers. 
 
 Wiesel replaced Martin Chavez, now the firm’s chief financial officer, as Goldman’s highest ranking technology executive in January. 
 
 About a quarter of Goldman’s 33,000 employees are engineers who have helped transform the firm since the 2007-2009 financial crisis by making trading more efficient and building new businesses such as its consumer lending platform called Marcus. 
 
 The majority of the bank’s employees still adhere to a professional business dress code unless told otherwise by their group’s manager. 
 
 Other banks are also relaxing dress codes. Last year, JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) said it would allow employees to wear business-casual attire on most occasions. In 2013, Barclays Plc (BARC.L) started to allow casual Fridays. 

 Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanLawmakers explore ways to reinstate House chaplain Ryan: Democratic House takeover would lead to gridlock and subpoenas GOP lawmaker calls on Ryan to reinstate House chaplain MORE (R-Wis.) said Thursday that he will work with the House sergeant-at-arms to update and modernize the dress code in the chamber and Speaker's lobby after complaints about how the rules are being enforced. 
 
 Some female Capitol Hill journalists have recently been barred from entering the Speaker's lobby, the private hallway connected to the House chamber, because they were wearing sleeveless dresses or open-toed shoes. That sparked complaints from reporters about selective enforcement of the dress code, which only calls for professional attire. 
 
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 Ryan's announcement came a day after Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) ridiculed the dress code during a speech on the House floor, saying she was dressed professionally, "which happens to be a sleeveless dress and open-toes shoes." 
 
 Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Ryan defended the sergeant-at-arms's interpretation of the dress code but said it could be relaxed a bit. 
 
 "The sergeant-at-arms was simply enforcing the same interpretation of the rules as under my predecessors. It's nothing new and certainly not something that I devised. At the same time, that doesn't mean that enforcement couldn't stand to be a bit modernized," Ryan said. 
 
 "Decorum is important, especially for this institution, and a dress code in the chamber and the lobby makes sense," the Speaker added. "We also don't need to bar otherwise accepted contemporary business attire, so look for a change on that soon." 

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 Speaker Paul Ryan has asked a top House chamber official to “modernize” the Speaker’s Lobby dress code after being pummeled in the media for a long-held rule that women must cover their shoulders in a hallway outside the House floor. 
 
 The Wisconsin Republican in a news conference Thursday said he has asked the House sergeant-at-arms to revisit and “update” business dress requirements that bar women from wearing sleeveless and open-toed shoes. The dress code also requires men to wear jackets and a tie, though that requirement has largely escaped recent criticism. 
 
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 “Decorum is important, especially for this institution, and a dress code in the chamber and in the lobby makes sense,” Ryan said. “But we also don’t need to bar otherwise accepted contemporary business attire, so look for a change on that soon.” 
 
 Ryan has faced an onslaught of attacks in fashion publications and on social media, with critics suggesting the rules reek of sexism and blaming him personally. The rules for women and men, however, have been in place and enforced for decades, including under former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. 
 
 Ryan clarified that he had nothing to do with the creation of the rules, though as speaker, he can ask House officers to change them. 
 
 “The sergeant-at-arms was simply enforcing the same interpretation of the rules as under my predecessors,” Ryan said. “This is nothing new and it’s certainly not something that I devised.” 
 
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 He added: “But at the same time, that doesn’t mean that enforcement couldn’t stand to be a bit modernized. So that is why we will be working with the sergeant-at-arms to ensure the enforcement of appropriate business attire is updated.” 
 
 The change to the dress code, which is enforced on members and reporters alike, comes just as some female Democratic lawmakers had also quietly been discussing a protest against the rules. 
 
 But even some Republican women have started pushing back on the rules, creating an even greater headache for Ryan. On Wednesday, Rep. Martha McSally of Arizona, took to the floor to purposefully flout the dress code — and she made sure lawmakers knew it. 
 
 "Before I yield back, I want to point out I'm standing here in my professional attire, which happens to be a sleeveless dress and open-toed shoes," she quipped.
– After some uproar about how the House of Representatives enforces its dress code, Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he and the House sergeant-at-arms will work to update it. The dress code calls for professional attire in the House chamber and the Speaker's lobby, and some female journalists have recently not been allowed to enter the Speaker's lobby due to sleeveless dresses or open-toed shoes. Critics say the dress code is selectively enforced; GOP Rep. Martha McSally even did so Wednesday during a speech on the House floor. "The sergeant-at-arms was simply enforcing the same interpretation of the rules as under my predecessors," Ryan said, per the Hill. "It's nothing new and certainly not something that I devised. At the same time, that doesn't mean that enforcement couldn't stand to be a bit modernized." Politico notes that the dress code has also been called sexist, and adds that female Democrats were considering a protest. In other dress code news, Goldman Sachs has relaxed its own dress code—at least for one class of employees. Tech employees are now allowed to "exercise judgment in determining when to adapt to business attire," per a memo from late June obtained by Reuters Thursday. Though the memo didn't specifically say whether the techie "uniform" of hoodies and sneakers would be deemed acceptable, Reuters notes that the move was designed to attract talent to its tech division via a more casual environment. Wall Street banks have been finding it difficult to compete with Silicon Valley companies and hedge funds for tech talent. The rest of the Goldman Sachs employees will still be expected to adhere to the normal dress code.