This constitute many things. Regardless how weak, they still respect values and they understand the intentions. Let me explain it to you:
There is this Niqab that covers all of your face, head and only eyes are left open.
Then there Hijab it covers you head. Face from chin to forehead is visible.
Then there is abaya its an extra long and loose shirt on your cloths that not only hides your cloths but also hides the physical make.
Now my experience of meeting people (sisters):
- I have met a working woman with Niqab. Her eyebrow were fully trimed / toned whatever you call it and she was wearing skin tight cloths with no abaya at all.
- I have also seen working women who prefer to wear abaya and no hijab or niqab.
- I have seen sisters who wear abaya with Hijab.
- I have seen only a few sisters with niqab and abaya.
I have seen people show a lot of respect for sisters with B and C type of dressing. D type of dressing is rare. I can remember only one sister who was my wife’s doctor, May Allah SWT reward her, Ameen.
Now come to the companies I think most of the companies don’t mind b and c type of the dressing. They even don’t mind d type of dressing if the job is not related to full time public dealing.
Some people may find it difficult communicating with a niqbi sister but in most cases here people do calculate performance which is actually the key. I mean I will prefer going to a niqabi expert than someone dressed without niqab/hijab/abaya and is not expert of the product or her work etc.
I have also noticed that most of the people avoid freeing with sisters dressed in Hijab/ Abaya etc.
This is my personal opinion. Most of my work experience is with Karachi based Pharmaceutical, Shipping / Logistics Industry and I had to deal with banks (the worst dressing code institutes of Pakistan) also.
Trust this helps.
On the side note will it be possible for a sister to stay in Niqab for 8 hours (9 – 5)?