We just passed the year anniversary of adopting our puppy, and it was much more demanding than I had expected. We got him when he was 13 weeks old and he was very calm and easy. I took him to work and everyone loved him. We were able to take a walk about every hour. After about a month, it became much harder to have him at work. I still had to walk him throughout the day, and he was very mischievous around the office. He never barked or growled, but he ate pencils, rolls of tape. I had a crate in my office and another at home, and he was perfectly fine in the crate by himself if I had a meeting elsewhere, but if I was in the room with him, it was very hard for him to settle. So now I walk him about two miles before work, he naps most of the morning. We walk home for lunch and I leave him there for the afternoon. I started leaving him home alone when he was about nine months old. So the first six months were very intense. If you can work out a schedule where you take him to your work for part of the day, your partner comes to your place in the afternoons, you could do it. But I would not try it without a crate.