I think it has a big impact, but not so much in the sense that a looser or stricter dress code will lead to different performance from a given programmer.
The impact it has is that a stricter dress code will - I guarantee you - lead to you finding it much, much harder to recruit and retain good talent.
A strict suit tie dress Korte Avondjurken code is an excellent way to generate a Dead Sea effect at your company. The sort of developers who stay at a Dead Sea company - less talented "grateful they have a job" developers - will have no problem wearing a suit tie. But genuinely talented people won't be happy, and that's if you even manage to hire them in the first place, without them being scared off by an office environment that looks nothing like their perception of a software company.
Programmers, especially the brilliant kind, are often peculiar creatures, and many of them don't go well with rules they consider arbitrary. People have written whole blogfuls about this, but the gist is that if you put arbitrary constraints upon a programmer, chances are they will stall, and their productivity will plummet.
Now, for roles where meeting clients in a formal setting is part of the job, dressing appropriately can be expected, and any programmer equipped with rudimentary social skills will comply, because it makes sense - if they don't, explain how wearing a suit and tie makes you look impressive and serious, and how that's helpful in selling the product and creating a relationship of trust. If you can make that argument, you probably won't need any explicit rules.
OTOH, if you can't explain to an intelligent person why the formal attire is needed, then chances are it is in fact arbitrary - maybe it makes you feel better, or someone in upper management; maybe it's just always been like this and nobody has ever given it much thought; but if you try to enforce such a rule without being able to explain why, your programming staff's morale will suffer.
It's not just dress codes: any rule you impose that is perceived as arbitrary, or worse, counter-productive, unfair, or overly restrictive, will yield the Een Schouder Prom Dresses same productivity-killing result.
Ultimately, I don't think that programmers, who have no potential to interact with clients, Feest Jurken should have a rigid dress code. If you've ever worked with creatives, you'll notice that they pretty much wear jeans and a t-shirt everyday, provided they aren't working with clients. Why should programmers be any different?
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