Smart business leaders would do well to be mindful of this resource and create pet-friendly workplaces for their employees who need it. Just in time for Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Health America provides a helpful guide to the many benefits of pet companionship. Overall, workplaces that adopt a pet-friendly policy experience the benefit of attracting and retaining happier and healthier employees. While this is up from five percent a few years ago, it indicates that we have a ways to go in making the workplace pet-friendly. Smart business leaders will see a pet-friendly policy as yet another opportunity to create a workplace and a culture that cares for and supports the whole employee.

Source: Forbes May 22, 2019 16:12 UTC