To wonder this about Specsavers?

Not necessarily, all the staff know the basics of contact lenses, but they work in the department if they show an interest. The only person who solely focuses on lenses is the contact lens optician, the staff doing the teach also work with glasses. This is how it is in my store anyway. Optics and audiology are separate, even the admin/office staff are separate. But lenses and glasses are the same team overall.

Note that the surgeons who do Lasik etc corrective surgery oftentimes tend to wear glasses rather than having the surgery too. They NEED their eyes to work to be able to do surgery - so they won't risk having the surgery, and would rather use glasses. That surgery won't give you perfect vision, and it can worsen over time - no surgeon is going to risk his career because his vision is getting fuzzy - particularly an eye surgeon who has to make very very fine cuts and have a very good sense of depth perception etc.

Fortunately these days glasses and contacts are cheaper than they have ever been, and glasses aren't "nerdy" any more - it's fashionable to wear them. I won't get surgery unless I absolutely need it and cannot safely function without it - and that includes surgery on my eyes.

I would say to get it. I did and I know so many people who have, no regrets from anyone. Just all wish we had done it sooner.

As does (almost) everyone who doesn’t work in Tesco.

Everyone who works in Tesco eats food.

I worked in Vision Express for a period and it was part of our induction to have an eye test and pick out a pair of glasses. We didn't have to wear them every day but we were certainly encouraged.

One thing that struck me was that about 75% of the team working in the private clinic nearby doing laser eye surgery wore glasses…. Not a great advert for laser eye surgery (I’m also bitter because I’m not suitable so have to stick with glasses/lenses).

I went to specsavers a couple of months ago. I didn’t notice the staff in glasses, but after the usual consultation and a very low prescription (they basically said it’s up to me if I want to squint a bit or wear glasses, neither will affect my sight deteriorating), I decided against it as I don’t really like glasses.

The next week I was in my usual monthly team meeting of 10. I noticed everyone had glasses on except one, not sure why it didn’t register before. I said this to my unspectacled colleague, and it turns out he wears contacts!!

Sorry, very pointless story, but it had never occurred to me how many people need vision assistance as I’ve not noticed it before. People’s spectacles often suit their faces perfectly and it doesn’t register (at least to me!).

Ive been using my local Specsavers for near on 20 years and have a great rapport with the staff

I was rung but the supervisor a few years back, out of the blue, asking me to apply for a post

Never in my life did I say I wanted a job

So I asked why the phone call, and her reply was, I was a glasses wearer, had a complex prescription and really enjoyed and engaged when choosing new glasses ( plus I had worked in sales before ) so she thought Id be an ideal applicant

Now that's not the norm I know, but seriously if I was the type of person they were looking for, sounds right that then the majority of staff wear glasses

I assumed a lot of them just had clear lenses so they could model the frames.

I work for Specsavers. It’s not a thing. At least at ours. They’re franchises, so I can’t speak for all of them. But several of our staff don’t wear glasses. And people who don’t wear lenses work in contact lenses. The audiology staff also don’t all wear hearing aids. A couple do, but they have hearing loss.

I'm thinking about booking a check up just to count the staff to glasses ratio 🤓😎

I was at Specsavers last week and the optician who tested my eyes didn’t need glasses.

Thank you! You are right I knew the word but not the spelling !

Do you know if this 'policy' extends, in a corresponding manner, to their Hearing Centres? 👂

This made me chuckle.
In my local specsavers, only a couple of the staff wore glasses when I visited recently. No idea if they wear contacts but I will look more closely next time!

I work in an opticians and I don’t wear glasses 😂 Some staff do because they need them.
I do however have loads of nice sunglasses 😎

Well Boots don't have this "rule" (that you've made up!) I don't think any of them wore glasses the last time I went in.

I think you are suffering from Apophenia. It's not terminal though.

68% of the population wear glasses or contacts so it’s not really surprising that you noticed lots of staff wearing them. You’d probably notice similar in lots of workplaces but of course you wouldn’t notice those wearing contacts as they’d have no reason to tell you, in say a shop or office!

My daughter worked in Specsavers last year for a few months. She had a full range of eye tests done when she started. She has perfect vision. Her manager asked her to pick out two frames that would suit her to wear in work. It wasn't mandatory but it was heavily advised for staff to wear glasses. She refused because she didn't want to wear glasses and she thought it was dishonest. As I said she was only there a short time but pressure was put on her regularly to wear glasses.

I had my eyes lasered about 25 years ago - it was still quite a new technique. My Moorfields surgeon was one of the leading practitioners and researchers, but he couldn't do his own eyes... he has since had them done, though.

I didn’t notice this. In both our local Specsavers and Vision express the vast majority of stuff are without glasses. Of course they could wear lenses.

Maybe they employ more people who wear glasses because they can review the glasses whereas someone who doesn’t wear them can’t give the customer the same feedback as they don’t know what it’s like to wear glasses .
I guess it’s like a midwife who’s given birth can help her patient more in labour as she knows exactly what the pain is like and she can empathise more with the Mum to be ?