Improving Workplace Collaboration Requires A Dog

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Researchers at Central Michigan University wanted to know if dogs— long acknowledged as catalysts for friendship— had any workplace benefits.

To find out, they gathered groups of four people and gave them a project...

Afterwards, each group member rated colleagues. The groups with a dog "ranked their team-mates more highly on measures of trust, team cohesion and intimacy than those who had not," the Economist writes.
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The team members with dogs around were 30% less likely to ding the others. The Economist's conclusion: more dogs in offices and fewer in police stations.


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