An office day is a ten-hour day for a dog. Your people know it, so they leave the late meeting early, skip the team dinner, and turn down the drink after. Not out of resentment, and it costs them something every time. Nobody should have to choose between the day they're having and the dog waiting on it.

— The 5pm meeting she leaves early —

The clock starts the second she walks out of the apartment. She's in the room, she's contributing, and part of her is doing the math on how long the dog has been alone. That math wins more often than the meeting does.

— The Doogler who still needs to go out —

The dogs who make it into the building are the lucky ones, and they still need a midday walk. Right now that falls to whoever can step away from their desk, which on a launch week is nobody.

— The trip Google booked —

Work travel, offsites, on-call weeks. Those are company-made pet care emergencies, and your employee absorbs every one alone, usually by calling in a favor or booking a stranger at short notice.

— Current options aren't the answer —

On the big apps your employee does the vetting themselves, from a profile, under time pressure. When a company points its people at a service and something goes wrong with someone's dog, that lands on the company too.