Beer Company Gives Its Staff A Week's Paid 'Pawternity' Leave

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This is one totally paw-some job perk.

Bosses at Scotland-based craft beer company BrewDog are giving their almost 1,000 employees around the world one weekโ€™s paid leave when they welcome a new puppy into their lives.

โ€œItโ€™s not easy trying to juggle work and settle a new dog into your life, and many members of our crew have four-legged friends at home,โ€ said BrewDogโ€™s co-founder, James Watt. โ€œSo we wanted to take the stress out of the situation and let our teams take the time they need to welcome their new puppy or dog into their family.โ€

Founded in 2007 by Watt and Martin Dickie (and the companyโ€™s mascot, labrador Bracken), BrewDog has offices in Aberdeenshire, Glasgow and London, as well as 50 bars worldwide. A new brewery is opening in Columbus, Ohio.

At the companyโ€™s Aberdeenshire headquarters alone, 50 โ€œoffice dogsโ€ regularly accompany their owners to work. Employees around the world are eligible for the new perk.

BrewDog revealed details of the new benefit โ€• dubbed โ€œpawternityโ€ or โ€œmutternityโ€ leave โ€• on its website Monday, and said it was part of its plan to โ€œbe the best company to work for, ever.โ€

โ€Weโ€™re not aware of any other American company giving a weekโ€™s leave to their staff to help build the bond between them and their dog โ€• but then few other companies have four-legged friends at their center as we do,โ€ the statement read.

The move has received an overwhelmingly positive reaction on social media:

BrewDog said the publicity had also resulted in an uptick in applications from people keen to work at the company.

โ€œItโ€™s awesome to see puppy parental leave resonating so much with so many people,โ€ spokeswoman Sarah Warman told The Huffington Post. โ€œWeโ€™re looking forward to many of our teams taking time off to care for their new four-legged friends. Hopefully theyโ€™ll bring them into the office to meet the rest of us, too!โ€

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