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Should your company participate in National Take Your Dog To Work Day?

National Take Your Dog To Work Day is intended to promote how dogs can reduce workplace stress, boost staff morale and productivity. But having dogs in the workplace or office environment create serious liability issues for the business owners, dog owners, and building owners that choose to participate. If a company allows employees to bring dogs to work and one of those dogs attacks a customer or another employee the company and even the building owner can be held liable and required to pay medical bills and other damages.

Dog-friendly policies that allow employees to bring well-behaved pets to work are popping up in many offices. Recent survey by the American Pet Products Association Manufacturers found that 20% of companies now have pet-friendly policies (though experts believe most are very small businesses).

Most dogs do not have enough training to be consistently trusted to behave in a busy workplace environment. And sadly most dog owners do not take full responsibility for making sure that their dog is properly trained, etc. There are also health and safety issues: some workplaces, such as restaurants, grocery stores, etc., clearly are not suitable for dog.

If you have bitten by an 'office dog' at your place of work or in a business where you were a customer contact dog bite attorney Chris Davis at the Davis Law Group.


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