{"id":85875,"date":"2017-05-24T10:22:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T04:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=85875"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T04:49:37","slug":"goats-cats-dogs-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/goats-cats-dogs-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Goats, cats and dogs at Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Animals or pets are being used as a stress buster here in the offices. Workaholic Japan is known for long office hours and stressed out employees, but one company claims to have a cure: Cats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of nine fluffy felines eat, sleep and walk freely in the small office of IT firm Ferray in Tokyo. Hidenobu Fukuda, who heads the firm, introduced an \u201coffice cat\u201d policy in 2000 upon request from one of his employees, allowing staffers to bring their moggies to work. \u201cI also give Rs 3,000 a month to those who rescue a cat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86005 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/600-janea-siouxsie_0.jpg\" alt=\"Goats, cats and dogs as Office\" width=\"600\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other Japanese companies are also allowing animals in the office to help reduce stress and anxiety. At Oracle Japan, an old English sheepdog named Candy works as a \u201cgreeting and healing ambassador\u201d, according to the company\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company said it has had an office dog since 1991, and Candy, the fourth one, now has Twitter and Instagram accounts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Pasona Group \u201chired\u201d two goats in 2011 and two alpacas in 2013 as full-time employees, partly for healing purposes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tokyo is also home to some 60 registered cat cafes, thanks to a growing number of feline lovers. Eri Ito, who works at Ferray, says she is sold on the animal\u2019s soothing ways. \u201cCats are sleeping just beside us&#8230; It\u2019s healing,\u201d Ito said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But there is also a downside to having felines in the office, Fukuda admitted.\u201cSometimes a cat will walk on a phone and cut off the call, or they shut down the computers by walking onto the off switch,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animals or pets are being used as a stress buster here in the offices. Workaholic Japan is known for long office hours and stressed out employees, but one company claims to have a cure: Cats. A total of nine fluffy felines eat, sleep and walk freely in the small office of IT firm Ferray in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[400,11153,44248,44252,1898,44247,3284,44250,36906,44249,44253,44251],"class_list":["post-85875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-cats-and-dogs-as-office","tag-company-claims","tag-employees","tag-goats","tag-japan","tag-offices","tag-pets","tag-stress-buster","tag-tokyo-hidenobu-fukuda","tag-workaholic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trupanion-medical-insurance-for-cats-and-dogs.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}