One woman did do one that dealt with treating your dog for depression though. Those sort of brown bags aren't so interesting.
(a) If your dog is depressed, you're doing something wrong. If your dog is actually, really, physiologically depressed (which I somehow kind of doubt) then it needs meds or to be put down, so you can start over with a dog that's not broken.
(b) Japanese companies, at least the one I'm at, and the two my brothers-in-law work at (a local medical trade school and Nissan), love LOVE love unpaid overtime. My job gets particularly bad at crunchtime, but the trade school had one bro-in-law in from just before 08:00 every day until 22:00 every night, 7 days a week. Nissan was 08:00 until 23:00 but 5 days a week until Carlos Ghosn laid down the law, and made them turn off the building power at 21:00.
ANY time a company wants in on even more personal time, I automatically think "Jeez, louise, aren't you getting enough already?" They've generally quit calling meetings outside of core hours, so that's something.
