In my thesis named: »Dogs at the workplace: Potential stress relief for owners and co-workers?« I focused on the current popular topic, where more and more companies are choosing to give employees the option to bring their dog to work. This topic or rather the actions of companies and their decisions in such policy is based on assumption that having a dog in the workplace increases satisfaction and reduces stress in the workplace. Consequently, the main focus of my research was to find out whether and to what extent does a dog really have positive impact on satisfaction and stress level of workers. The research is relevant today as companies consider that a good worker is a happy worker, which means that more and more resources and analysis are focusing on how to best please workers. In addition, current studies and research are also focusing on the involvement of employees in the company's activities and aims to make the company more and more successful. The relation between company's performance and employee satisfaction is therefore crucial. Both company representatives and employees consider dogs beneficial to employee well-being and improved social interactions. Considering dogs as potential stress reducer the employees and company representatives are not united, however considering results obtained from web survey it can be said that employees in general do consider dog being beneficial to reducing stress in the workplace.
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