Re ‘Pet-friendly workplaces make for happier people' (page 23, The Weekend Sun, September 7).

Dogs in the workplace is a crazy idea. It undermines the neutral place a workspace should be. It takes no account of co-workers and customers who do not like dogs, or have allergies. The dog will not always be like the cute one shown.

Dogs in the workplace may delight the owner and is another example of dog owners generally pushing their ways on the wider community. Something which Housing Minister Twyford seems intent on doing as well. This is the slippery slope of fascism!

If people need their pets in the workplace with them maybe they should work from home and not foist their values on others who do not want a bar of them.

R Reed, Matua.