Given the right office environment, every office should have a dog!
At the end of what has been a brutal week fraught with questionable decisions, its so nice to walk our campus and see all of our four legged residents bounding about! To be fair, we've had kittens and rabbits too.
I often forget to tell people who visit or interview that we are pet friendly, and am always surprised to see their faces when we encounter one of our dogs! My first reaction is OH SHIT, I hope they like dogs, so far so good, whew!! It doesn't hurt that the dogs are so flipping cute and playful!
There have been numerous studies conducted on the affect animals have in the workplace, all of them positive I think! Would not have believed it until I witnessed it for myself! Now I can't imagine coming to work and not having a dog or pet of some sort around! If your upset and need some air, someone is always willing to let you play with their dog outside. Just need a change of scenery for a minute, grab some treats and go visit a few cubicles. Want to be amused and ignored at the same time, let the kittens out and laugh while they walk across or nap on your keyboard, sending blank emails to people and erasing lines you worked so hard to set to paper...its really mood altering, resets the tone of your day!!
Now please do not think I am suggesting everyone should bring animals to the office, there are citizenship and temperament requirements to be considered! Unfortunately I can't bring my dog in to the office because I am terrified he would mount the CEO's Maltese, quite frankly I'd rather play with him than deal with a lot of people and there is just too much going on in general to try it. But when I first got him at 8 weeks old, he was here with me daily for four weeks, and it made all the difference in the world to me and others to have the option to bring him into the office!
Pet Friendly offices rock!!
And we're off...
