A creative way to combat stress in the workplace



A Saint Louis area manufacturer has a program in place that helps combat workplace stress in an ever-more challenging industry โ€” and helps socialize dogs so they can be adopted.

"We began as a custom-cutting tool manufacturer for the screw machine industry, but when the tooling market began to constrict, a lot of screw machine work went to the Asian Rim," Reichlin said. "Following the economic upheaval in late 2008 and 2009, the stress level of running a manufacturing company these days can be quite high.

"It's amazing how bringing a dog into the workplace ends up being semi-therapeutic. It really helps people communicate better with each other. It changes the stress level in the room."

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