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Dogs Make Employees More Productive at Work

A. Leib Lurie never intended for his company, message delivery service One Call Now, to be pet-friendly. But his dog, Ivy, had other ideas. Five years ago, the German shepherd showed up unannounced at One Call Now’s Troy, Ohio-based office—a 1.5-mile trek from Lurie’s home. When he continued make the trip each day he wasn’t brought to the office. Lurie realised it was time for a change in company policy. Today, four or five employee’s dogs, as well as a variety offish, birds, and other caged animals join Ivy in the office daily to make One Call Now a workingman’s menagerie (动物园). "They are not very good at sending voice messages, " Lurie jokes of the pets in his office. "But we’ve gotten them down with using the computer, at least the point part. "
B. One Call Now joins a growing force of companies across the United States to welcome pets in the workplace. While only 17 percent