Pets should go to work with us. I found this article on Everyday Health by Robert Preidt about dogs in the work place. I thought it was awesome. We all have stressful jobs and its very stressful on us when we leave our dogs home or at doggie day care for long hours every day. This research in this article suggests that the workers that brought their dogs to work with them were more productive and happy compared to those workers that didn't bring their pets and those that don't own pets. That was an interesting find to me. We are more happy when our loved ones are around. Read more here:
Research shows employees more productive, less stressed if their dogs accompany them to the job. The research was conducted at a service-manufacturing-retail company in Greensboro, N.C., which has about 550 employees and allows up to 30 pet dogs on company premises each day.
Over the course of a week, Virginia Commonwealth University researchers compared stress levels and job satisfaction among those employees who brought their dogs to work, those who didn't bring their dogs to work, and employees without pets.
The study found that dogs in the workplace seemed to help reduce job-related stress for their owners and make work more satisfying for other employees who came into contact with the dogs.
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