Bring your dog and enjoy work

Bangkok – Nimo bounds out of a car to get to work at a Bangkok advertising agency, but Nimo is no ordinary employee. He’s a dog.

The brown-haired husky accompanies his owner, Thimpaporn Phopipat, to work every day at digital advertising agency YDM in the Thai capital.

“Since I love dogs, it really made me want to work here,” said Thimaporn, 29, a digital public relations manager who also takes along her chihuahua, Muu Pan.

The bring-your-dog-towork trend is gaining momentum in Thailand, particularly at companies like advertisement firms that are known to require irregular work hours.

The policy can help to alleviate stress, as well as attract, and retain, employees.

YDM, with nearly 200 employees and 20 pet dogs, is by far the largest to adopt the scheme.

A May 2017 study in the International Journal of Environmental Research

and Public Health warned against hazards such as allergies. But the same report said pets could help to buffer stress at work. –