Think your tech company is cool? Does it have dogs? No? Then it is not cool. These offices are cool.
Calida here (along with owner Vonetta Logan) frequents the offices at Dough, which runs an online options trading company as well as the tastytrade financial network.
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Here’s Ria, one of the two official office dogs of the high-tech pet service company Worthee.
The ecommerce site Etsy has many office dogs, including this unnamed pooch.
Here’s Reggie with his person, Royden Chick, who is a QA lead at the software company Autodesk.
This French bulldog goes to the Etsy offices with its owner, a merchandiser for the company.
Recruitment software company Workable also has offices in Athens, where this 8-month-old Greek shepherd dog, Kyma, runs things.
Of course a company called Bark & Co., which, among other operations, runs the BarkPost blog, would allow office dogs.
Not every office dog is a dog. Lord Jello Worthington II is one of several parakeets who supervise at the design company Pixelkeet.
This is how Westie (clearly not an actual westie) shows up for duty at Workable.
Oscar de Leon reserves a conference room for his department at Narrative Science, a company that invented Quill, a natural-language generation platform.
“I walked into 606,” one Etsy employee recently posted on Instagram, “and this lil’ dingus on the right was staring at me, smiling.”
They don’t fly delivery drones, but Amazon‘s office dogs are nonetheless mission critical.
It’s good to be king. It’s even better to be a Cavalier King Charles spaniel in the Etsy offices.
If you work at Amazon, good luck getting your meeting if these two are around.
At the headquarters of the mobile marketplace Spring, Pearl and Gizmo support the staff … when they’re speaking to each other.
We’re not sure which dog prevailed after this meeting at Amazon, but we hope that human resources didn’t have to get involved.
This Welsh Corgi keeps Lizzie Bennett company at Autodesk in Oswego, Oregon.
Joining Jackson at Autodesk: Lena.
From the first day that mobile marketing and app development company Punchkick opened its doors, Brooklyn the beagle was there.
“Unfortunately,” Punchkick CEO Zak Dabbas tells TechRepublic, “there’s a painful downside to an office dog. And that is that the little buddies eventually move on, and it’s heartbreaking.
“This past fall, Brooklyn passed away after 14 incredible years. It was so hard on everyone in the office, but his life, and passing, really brought us together.”
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Leslie Gornstein is a senior editor with CBS Interactive. For the past two decades, she's covered consumer and B-to-B tech; biotech; entertainment and various other subjects that seemed interesting at the time. She's the author of The A-List Playbook (Skyhorse) and she lives in Los Angeles.
