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Dogs at the Workplace: Daily Investigation of Effects on Well-Being and Job Performance
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2025-08
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Business Administration/Human Resource Management
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https://doi.org/10.34944/fab2-t013
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In response to the rising importance of pets in people’s lives and the accumulating research on potential benefits of human-animal interactions for people’s health and wellbeing, many workplaces have joined the growing trend of becoming a pet-friendly employer and allowing employees to bring their pets, especially dogs, to the workplace. In addition, some companies launched “bring your dog to work” programs to encourage workers to return to the office after introducing remote or hybrid arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we still know very little about how bringing dogs to work affects employees’ experiences at work. Thus, this dissertation employs an experience sampling methodology study to examine how dogs’ daily physical proximity to their owners during the workday impacts the employees’ daily well-being (i.e., emotional exhaustion) and job performance (i.e., goal progress, interpersonal organizational citizenship behaviors). I focus on affective and cognitive mechanisms and propose that these effects will be mediated by affect and attentional focus on work tasks. Moreover, this dissertation investigates several boundary conditions that could amplify or attenuate the effects of dog proximity on dog owners’ daily well-being and job performance.
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