Benefits of Taking Your Dog to Work May Not Be Far-Fetched

Benefits of Taking Your Dog to Work May Not Be Far-Fetched

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120330081235.htm

A research study was conducted to find out if taking man’s best friend to work reduced stress and made the job more satisfying for other employees. Stress is one of the major factors that cause employee’s to miss work, lower moral and cause them to burnout, resulting in significant losses of resources and productivity. Researchers from VCU compared employees who bring their dogs to work, employees who do not bring their dogs to work and employees without pets in the areas of stress, organizational commitment, support, and job satisfaction. The study showed that Dogs bring more positive emotions to a workplace than one without a dog.

This could cause an increase in Dogs that are brought to work and a decrease of places that don’t allow pets.