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How do dog friendly work places deal with employees that are allergic to dogs?
I believe it is also the same for food allergies at school. If one child has a peanut allergy, birthday cakes are out.
"Some serious incidents took place during this time, like bites. Most of the bites were workers from other companies onsite to do their normal rounds, like delivery drivers. Fortunately no serious injuries ever materialized [...]" What are the insurance ramifications of all these dogs? I'm astonished that the fact that dogs have already attacked people at SparkFun didn't cause them to rescind the policy of allowing d…
If it was an aggression bite it would've been more serious but this doesn't look like the case.
But apparently SparkFun is mature enough to realize that and hasn't gone into an exaggerated reaction. Banning them should be ok.
Props for them!
If someone tried to bring dog to my office, next thing I will do would be to ask permission to work from home. If that doesn't work, I'd look up for another job. If that doesn't work, I'd buy rats and cocroaches, and bring them to work with me as "pets". But, there's no way I'm going to sit in the office full of "nice dogs" and pretend that doesn't affect me. EDIT: Just to clarify, I am not allergic to dogs and yes,…
I really love dogs, but this is just nuts. Pets belong at home, not at work. A dog tribunal? Talk about a waste of company time. I understand that in certain companies (with sky-high margins or money to burn) the line between work and play gets blurred more and more, but that's in stark contrast to the rest of the economy. I can understand that certain people outside of tech (who are struggling) are starting to get a…
I can enjoy playing with a dog periodically, but I would definitely prefer to not spend a lot of time (much less work 40++ hours/week) in that environment.
That said, it's a company choice they've made. Reversing it it now or even severely restricting it would probably mean attrition of a large portion of their staff.
If someone tried to bring dog to my office, next thing I will do would be to ask permission to work from home. If that doesn't work, I'd look up for another job. If that doesn't work, I'd buy rats and cocroaches, and bring them to work with me as "pets". But, there's no way I'm going to sit in the office full of "nice dogs" and pretend that doesn't affect me. EDIT: Just to clarify, I am not allergic to dogs and yes,…
Some people have rats as pets and carry them around. I fail to see the problem with that.
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I think the blurring of the line is good for all sectors. Let's not assume that people who aren't in tech somehow don't deserve to have the same perks.
Maybe, but I'm not thinking about deserving and making workers feel good; though I'm all for it in every industry, in some this is a requirement rather than perk. You can treat people like slaves (and many do) in grocery stores or internet bookshops with little negative impact on productivity or profitability, but I wouldn't want to see or use code written by people in similar conditions.
If your only concern was profitability, there are a huge number of engineering companies who achieved success despite, or perhaps because of, encouraging long hours and driving their employees to the ground. That's why profitability is not my only concern.
If this is not spoof, it illustrates well how startup turns into corporation. They could allow occasional work from home. No instead they create The Dog Policy, the Dog Agreement and The Dog Tribunal Management. If someone has allergy or wants to bring his baby, they introduce another 10 agreements. In my previous job colleague was bringing dog sometimes, I just asked him to keep it away from me (have serious allergy…
1 - They're a hardware company. You can't take most of the equipment home
2 - EDA software is usually very expensive (and sometimes hardware demanding), so you can't just install it in a laptop
I really love dogs, but this is just nuts. Pets belong at home, not at work. A dog tribunal? Talk about a waste of company time. I understand that in certain companies (with sky-high margins or money to burn) the line between work and play gets blurred more and more, but that's in stark contrast to the rest of the economy. I can understand that certain people outside of tech (who are struggling) are starting to get a…
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Seems silly to have a dog if you're just going to leave it at home for 10-11 hours a day, 5 days a week.
Honest question, would you feel the same way if you replace dog by baby in your sentence? Edit: Hopefully, "at home" would then mean "at the daycare", otherwise it's a bit irresponsible...