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Amazon Wants 10,000+ Employee Dogs Back in Office, Facilitating Collaboration https://slashdot.org/submission/17188709/amazon-wants-10000-employee-dogs-back-in-

Amazon Wants 10,000+ Employee Dogs Back in Office, Facilitating Collaboration https://slashdot.org/submission/17188709/amazon-wants-10000-employee-dogs-back-in-office-facilitating-collaboration https://slashdot.org/submission/17188709/amazon-wants-10000-...

version_five 4y ago
I would quit immediately it I had to go to an office with a bunch of dogs in it. It's weird to me that in all the performative "inclusion" that companies get up to, they think it's ok to create a policy that will make a non-negligible portion of workers extremely uncomfortable. Their choice, personally a dog-friendly workplace is a complete nonstarter for me
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- microtherion 4y ago
  I'm very much a cat person and uncomfortable around most dogs. That said, I collaborate often with non-sighted co-workers, some of which have service dogs, which are invariably well behaved, and in the office for a good reason.
  - dgb23 4y ago
    Service dogs are more well behaved than the average person.
  - SuoDuanDao 4y ago
    big difference between a service dog and a family dog. They might as well let everyone take their young children to work.
- badcppdev 4y ago
  A bunch of dogs just seems like you're going to have otherwise well behaved dogs getting 'yappy' and annoyed at each other. Or worse. I calculate my comfort level in an office with N dogs would decrease at a rate of N*(N-1)
- cmrdporcupine 4y ago
  Google had a "bring your dog to work" option and I saw maybe 3 people use it at my site the entire time I was there (10 years). It's just a silly thing, because dogs (well, my dogs at least) require more interaction and free movement than they can get at an office. And if you bring your dog, now you can't go to the cafeteria for lunch, etc. and have to find someone to attend to them when you go to the bathroom or whatever. I did it once because my wife and kids were away and I felt bad for my dog alone by herself at home. Neither of us enjoyed it. I get why employers offer it -- a dog alone for hours by itself sucks. But they'd probably be better off just giving employees discounts on local "Doggy daycare" places. Anyways now I have two border collies lying on the bed in my (home) office behind me staring at me wondering why I'm not doing something more interesting than shitposting on HN.
belter 4y ago
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adlpz 4y ago
This whole thing reads like a disturbing attempt to seem human and approachable of a soulless machine overlord. Which I guess fits AMZN well enough.
kmac_ 4y ago
Do the dogs wander around the offices? What about employees with allergies?
- klyrs 4y ago
  Though owners are generally expected to keep them, dogs predictably escape containment. Humans with allergies sneeze, which startles the dogs into barking. It's ridiculous. I'd be in favor of onsite doggy daycare, not in my working environment.
- x86x87 4y ago
  technically dogs should not wonder around. employees with allergies are usually placed on a floor with no dogs with beefy filtration systems (and there are also special no-dogs building). collaboration, amiright?

version_five 4y ago

I would quit immediately it I had to go to an office with a bunch of dogs in it. It's weird to me that in all the performative "inclusion" that companies get up to, they think it's ok to create a policy that will make a non-negligible portion of workers extremely uncomfortable. Their choice, personally a dog-friendly workplace is a complete nonstarter for me

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microtherion 4y ago
I'm very much a cat person and uncomfortable around most dogs. That said, I collaborate often with non-sighted co-workers, some of which have service dogs, which are invariably well behaved, and in the office for a good reason.
- dgb23 4y ago
  Service dogs are more well behaved than the average person.
- SuoDuanDao 4y ago
  big difference between a service dog and a family dog. They might as well let everyone take their young children to work.
badcppdev 4y ago
A bunch of dogs just seems like you're going to have otherwise well behaved dogs getting 'yappy' and annoyed at each other. Or worse. I calculate my comfort level in an office with N dogs would decrease at a rate of N*(N-1)
cmrdporcupine 4y ago
Google had a "bring your dog to work" option and I saw maybe 3 people use it at my site the entire time I was there (10 years). It's just a silly thing, because dogs (well, my dogs at least) require more interaction and free movement than they can get at an office. And if you bring your dog, now you can't go to the cafeteria for lunch, etc. and have to find someone to attend to them when you go to the bathroom or whatever. I did it once because my wife and kids were away and I felt bad for my dog alone by herself at home. Neither of us enjoyed it. I get why employers offer it -- a dog alone for hours by itself sucks. But they'd probably be better off just giving employees discounts on local "Doggy daycare" places. Anyways now I have two border collies lying on the bed in my (home) office behind me staring at me wondering why I'm not doing something more interesting than shitposting on HN.

belter 4y ago

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adlpz 4y ago

This whole thing reads like a disturbing attempt to seem human and approachable of a soulless machine overlord. Which I guess fits AMZN well enough.

kmac_ 4y ago

Do the dogs wander around the offices? What about employees with allergies?

klyrs 4y ago
Though owners are generally expected to keep them, dogs predictably escape containment. Humans with allergies sneeze, which startles the dogs into barking. It's ridiculous. I'd be in favor of onsite doggy daycare, not in my working environment.
x86x87 4y ago
technically dogs should not wonder around. employees with allergies are usually placed on a floor with no dogs with beefy filtration systems (and there are also special no-dogs building). collaboration, amiright?