The Fee supplied 5 pages of pointers to civil servants earlier than the trial run. “Analysis exhibits that interacting with canines can cut back stress and anxiousness and improve well-being,” it says.
Nevertheless it provides that staff who’re allergic to canines or really feel uncomfortable ought to “take into account teleworking (if relevant).”
Apart from lowering stress and anxiousness among the many EU’s civil service, the acknowledged targets are “to contribute to the attractiveness of our Establishment.”
Officers are solely allowed to deliver one canine every, and so they have to be stored on a leash. Images from a trial run at DG Justice on Friday, seen by POLITICO, counsel this well being and security guideline was not adhered to.
The Fee first piloted the scheme final October as a part of a psychological well being week for civil servants, describing it as a “barking success” that produced “numerous Instagram-worthy moments” in a press launch.
The DG for maritime affairs and the DG for taxation additionally trialed the canine experiment in February. 4 canines got here to the primary DG occasion, whereas “9-10” canines have been current on the latter, the Fee wrote in an inside press launch revealed after the occasion. The Fee says a complete of 60 canines have been introduced into the workplace as a part of the scheme.