Why a dog-friendly workplace?
Benefits Your Staff and Organization
Enhances Your Customer Experience and Marketing
Enhances Your Customer Experience and Marketing
- Increases employee productivity & engagement
- Enhances employee health & reduces stress
- Reduce burnout, especially in high stress workplaces
- Improves attraction to potential hires
- Increases retention
- Creates connections among staff
- Positive distractions
- Increases well-being and quality of life
Enhances Your Customer Experience and Marketing
Enhances Your Customer Experience and Marketing
Enhances Your Customer Experience and Marketing
- Added symbolism and identification (i.e., dogs = family or companionship or care)
- Increases credibility
- Expresses care to customer
- Increases “good” feelings
- Increase brand recognition
- On social media, increase accessibility to product/service
- Helps segment your customers
- Promotes humane treatment of animals
- (Pro tip): Avoid using dogs/animals as customers in ads or social media
Improves Your Bottom Line!
Enhances Your Customer Experience and Marketing
Improves Your Bottom Line!
In the Denver area, it is estimated that the average person spends $500-$1000/month to send their dog to doggy day care.
By creating a dog-friendly workplace, you put money back into your employees' pockets and increase your bottom line!
Research shows that the combination of staff benefits, enhanced marketing, and an added value to your customers' experience leads to an increase in the bottom line! This can pay for itself!
What a Gold Rush Workplace Consulting Package Provides
Where do I start? What should I be considering?
Here is a list of some of the aspects of your workplace, from office layout to policies to cultural considerations, to consider when transitioning to a dog-friendly workplace.
- Liability insurance
- Employee Handbook outlining policies & expectations
- Employee disclaimer/affidavit
- Addressing religious, cultural, and health concerns and avoiding discrimination
- Being up-front in interviews√ Layout of space
- Space for dogs to go to bathroom
- Cleanliness expectations
- Size of dogs, dog breeds, dog ages
- Dog conflicts / staff conflicts
- Disciplinary measures/process
- Schedules and breaks to manage dogs
- Assessing dog and employee - it’s a privilege, not a right
- Pet bereavement days
- Remote or Work-from-home policies
- Customer experience if dog friendly for customers
Our Expertise and What We Provide
- Office Layout Assessment
- Drafting Policies & Waivers
- Incorporating into employee handbook
- 1 FREE dog demonstration for employees per year
- 1 FREE education workshop for employees on service dogs and dog behavior
- Signage/collateral for onboarding
- 10% training discount for all staff
- Assistance with mitigating dog-related conflicts
- Dog assessments
- On-going troubleshooting throughout the year
- Dog Friendly Workplace Certification
Our Services
- Office Layout Assessment
- Drafting Policies & Waivers
- Incorporating into employee handbook
- 1 FREE dog demonstration for employees per year
- 1 FREE education workshop for employees on service dogs and dog behavior
- Signage/collateral for onboarding
- 10% training discount for all staff
- Assistance with mitigating dog-related conflicts
- Dog assessments
- Ongoing troubleshooting throughout the year
- Dog Friendly Workplace Certification
How Much?
We know this kind of investment is not to be taken lightly, which is why we have based it on the size of your organization. We have broken them out into four packages, named after key locations in Colorado Gold Rush
If these costs feel prohibitive, please reach out. Every consultation begins with a FREE initial visit to discuss your goals and needs.