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If you go to Mersana Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, you likely will run into dogs. Several employees raise puppies to be service dogs. Since these dogs need lots of experience with different people and in different settings, going to work with their people is part of the training.
I can see this being a good mix because having dogs around helps people relax. How many times have you been worried or stressed and looked into the face of your buddy and felt it all float away. Although the dogs are not allowed in the labs, they hang out in offices and even go to meetings. (I have to admit that I'm smiling at the idea of walking into a meeting with one of my big guys with me.)
On any given day, anywhere from one to six dogs can be found walking the halls of Mersana’s offices on Memorial Drive. The company’s chief business officer, Eva Jack, participates in Canine Companions for Independence, a nonprofit program in which volunteer “puppy raisers” like her provide homes for aspiring service dogs before they are placed with children, adults and veterans with disabilities.
But Mersana’s most impressive feat might be that its employees remain productive despite working alongside puppies. https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2017/11/01/a-requirement-at-this-cambridge-biotech-must-love.html?ana=e_bost_bio&s=newsletter&ed=2017-11-02&u=16617299604ce0c56c5e6ccaa41cbf&t=1509657584&j=79101531
Once they are about 2 years old, they go on to specialized training in specific areas. It takes people with big hearts to commit to raising puppies and then letting them go. Knowing that they will help others in need has to help. Although I'm not a big fan of drug companies, these people are doing something extraordinary!
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I can see this being a good mix because having dogs around helps people relax. How many times have you been worried or stressed and looked into the face of your buddy and felt it all float away. Although the dogs are not allowed in the labs, they hang out in offices and even go to meetings. (I have to admit that I'm smiling at the idea of walking into a meeting with one of my big guys with me.)
On any given day, anywhere from one to six dogs can be found walking the halls of Mersana’s offices on Memorial Drive. The company’s chief business officer, Eva Jack, participates in Canine Companions for Independence, a nonprofit program in which volunteer “puppy raisers” like her provide homes for aspiring service dogs before they are placed with children, adults and veterans with disabilities.
But Mersana’s most impressive feat might be that its employees remain productive despite working alongside puppies. https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2017/11/01/a-requirement-at-this-cambridge-biotech-must-love.html?ana=e_bost_bio&s=newsletter&ed=2017-11-02&u=16617299604ce0c56c5e6ccaa41cbf&t=1509657584&j=79101531
Once they are about 2 years old, they go on to specialized training in specific areas. It takes people with big hearts to commit to raising puppies and then letting them go. Knowing that they will help others in need has to help. Although I'm not a big fan of drug companies, these people are doing something extraordinary!
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