Why Digital Marketers Need a Pet for Their Home Office

The growing need for people to have home offices and work from home is something that can’t be ignored at all. How does working at home ensure that the work is done and how well done it is? If you have pets or kids, this can be a really challenging task. Whether it’s a corgi puppy or a great dane, a baby or a teenager issues will definitely arise.

Are the companies better off with it or not? And how are the workers themselves coping with this new system of working? Are they more productive? Are they better-rounded? How is their mental health?

Working from home isn’t the life it’s cut out to be. It’s fun at first. Not having to dress up and commute to work, get stressed out, and then trudge back home tired and stressed out. 

In fact, depending on the type of job, you don’t have to get out of bed all day, as long as you have your laptop and devices in perfect working condition. You can get everything done in your pajamas. If you’re a digital marketer, you’d understand this perfectly.

But there are issues with this lifestyle and a simple solution that helps to add more balance to your life.

Remote Work Can Create Boredom

The work is fantastic until you start getting bored and feeling boxed in. you want to take a walk to stretch your legs and see something new, but there’s nowhere new to go in your small two-bedroom, one-bath apartment. And that’s even if your place is as big as that. If you have a roommate, it can help a little, but it is ultimately the same thing. 

Social Interaction is Lacking

You begin to realize that the noise of the workplace, the human interaction with other staff, bosses, colleagues, and juniors alike are more important than you think.

Excess Screen Time is A Problem

And if you’re a digital marketer that your work involves staring at a screen for hours on end, it gets to you a little more than others. Of course, staring at screens has always been where the bulk of the work was. At least you would have had idea sharing and brainstorming sessions with other people at the office and would get to conduct research and questionnaires and see the physical reactions to your work in the clients and customers. 

Now, all there is to see and do is on a screen in the same environment every day. 

Lack of Creativity

The ideas are not flowing as freely as they used to. You’re cut off from random everyday objects that fuel your ideas and inspiration.

Why A Pet Matters

Getting a pet will help a lot. A new mouth to feed and look after and take for walks, and brush, and comb, and watch it play, and clean up after, and cuddle with in front of the TV after the day’s job. Getting a pet is a perfect option as long as you’re not allergic to the animal.

You can get different animals for pets. If you like the bubbly space filled with energy and activity, a dog might be perfect for you. If you want a calm, relaxed environment, a fish could work. Or maybe two, as long as you don’t forget to feed it. 

Cats can be needy and demanding attention, and if you can give it to them and not get upset by the constant mewing, you can get one too. Either way, getting a pet works and provides benefits in more ways than one.