All right, we're at the Rover office.
This is Olive, and a lot of my colleagues bring their dogs
to work with them, but not every floor in the building is dog friendly.
So I just want to show you a cool feature on the elevator buttons in the lobby.
That's for people specifically coming to work with dogs.
OK, so on the elevator buttons in the lobby, there is a little paw print.
So what's really cool about that paw print button is
it tells the elevator system, hey, I'm going up to
whatever floor that you press and I'm taking a dog with me.
So the system will then either assign you an elevator with other people
who have also pressed the paw print button, or if there's
no one else that's going up with the dog, they'll put you in your own elevator.
And this is really just for the comfort of other people who work in the building.
Some people are scared of dogs.
Some dogs jump just in excitement.
And so it really just creates a more comfortable experience for everyone
who's just trying to go up to the floor that they work at.
So Rover's headquarter is in Seattle. We're like right downtown,
right in the middle of Seattle.
And it gets wet. It rains a lot. It's misty.
And we have a lot of dogs here who have longer hair
and get wet and kind of when they shake, water goes everywhere.
So we have a little station for the pets.
And I wanted to show it to you.
So here we have raincoats,
one in every size, and these are all available to borrow.
You can just grab which one fits your dog.
Pop it on and hang it back up when you come back inside.
We've got treats for them.
We've got poop bags, paw wipes, masks
for the humans, hand sanitizer.
And this is here for anyone to use any day.
So one thing people ask me a lot is, " do dogs just run around your office?"
"It must be crazy there." And actually, it's not.
It's very organized.
We have little pods and it actually works out really nicely.
So there's about six desks per pod.
You can kind of see that here behind me.
And at the entrance
to each pod, which is right along the hallway, there's a sliding door.
So let me just show you.
So this is what the hallway looks like.
And each pod has one of these like frosted glass doors.
That slide closed.
So dogs don't have to be on-leash when they're in the pod.
They can be off.
And then whoever comes in or when you go out,
you just have to make sure to close the door.
Everyone who's in the pod kind of grows really close to the dogs
that are in there.
So it's nice to have dogs, you know, be able to walk around,
say hello to everyone.
Give everyone some love, sit on laps
and not just be at the desk of the person who they came into work with.
So our office in Seattle is four floors and each one is themed.
So I sit on the cat floor.
It's pretty funny.
Let me just show you a few things.
The conference rooms are named after cat breeds. We got Sphynx.
Singapura.
And let me just show you what greets you
when you walk in first thing in the morning.
My favorite!
Whoever picked that out? Thank you.
We're on another floor now.
The conference rooms are movie themed.
Indiana Bones, Jurassic Bark,
I mean, Mary Puppins.
Look at this. Who doesn't want to walk past this every day?
It's kind of inevitable when there's dogs in the workplace
that there's going to be accidents.
It's just, they go hand in hand sometimes.
Especially when we've had puppies in the office
Olive has been coming here since she was 8 weeks old.
Okay, see you.
I'm on the floor.
And this carpet is clean.
We have new carpet that wicks away moisture.
And, when accidents happen, we are well equipped to handle it.
And let me show you why.
Here we go.
You got your big Rug Doctor
Your little Rug Doctor
You need more soap? No problem.
Every floor has these.
It's no big deal.
You just come grab the machine,
clean it up, clean out the machine,
put it back where you found it, and that's it.
All right, by now, you're probably wondering what's in it for the dogs?
What do the dogs get to do?
I'm about to show you.
Look at this. Doggy play room.
Sadly, there's no one in here because Covid, but once things are back, baby.
This is the spot to be.
And now onto the doggie deck.
This is a special outdoor area just for the dogs in
the office, leashes are mandatory.
Let me just show you what we're working with.
This is a doggy area, it even has in-terf sprinklers
keep everything fresh, clean, smelling good.
If your dog needs to go to the bathroom or whatnot.
You just want to come up here for some fresh air.
Look at that. Beautiful.