24/06/2025
We realize this shared information quotes US workers. So, we looked for Canadian information to share. Canadian workers are among the most stressed as well. This year’s State of the Global Workplace Report asked more than 225,000 workers globally about their workplace. you can view the study here: https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-workplace.aspxworkers
My Dad always told me about having a work "mail box" and a "home mailbox" where you mentally leave all the stuff happening in them and pick them up when you get back. It's harder to do now that we are so plugged in to our world. It makes sense that our stress and emotions affect our behaviour, and in turn our pets.
"Dogs are highly sensitive animals who experience emotional contagion and “catch” the feelings of other individuals, including humans. Dogs have been shown to experience increases in stress both behaviorally and physiologically when their owner experiences a rise in stress, or when hearing a human cry.
On a chronic level, pet dogs have displayed signs of synchronization with their owners’ stress levels, showing stress coping capabilities that relate to their owner’s personality (as measured by salivary cortisol variability) and alignment between their own stress level and their owner’s (as measured by hair cortisol concentration)."
