Corporate child care is a specific form of child care sponsored or managed by an employer. It may be a perk or a part of the corporate social responsibility policy of the company. It can provide the working parents with an opportunity to find work-life balance. The corporations sponsor child care as it may increase employee loyalty, decrease maternity leaves and improve on-job concentration.
Video Corporate child care
Scope
Companies have started corporate child care schemes for the young Generation Y employees, many of whom aspire to establish a work-life balance while pursuing a career and gaining money. Many working parents face challenges such as lack of free places in public pre-schools, inappropriate schedule, expensive services of private child care and preschools, low quality of services or little time spending with a child. The corporate child care programs intend to address these issues. Such a program may cover the following:
- The company provides new child care places for children
- Timetable is adjusted to parents working hours
- The company can cover all the expenses or share them with parents
- Better quality (due to recruitment system, ongoing education, teachers' development)
- More time to spend with children (during the transfer time)
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Realization Model
Each program provides children with appropriative development environment and education model designed by high-qualified teachers
- Nido environment from 0 up to 1 year old
- Corporate child center for children 0-3 years old
- Corporate kindergarten/center for children 3-6 years old
- Back-up care for children 0-3 ? 3-6 years old
- Corporate children camp for children of different ages (from 3 up to 14) for holidays
Possible benefits
- Increased loyalty of all employees
- Qualification maintenance of employees during the maternity leave
- Reduced employee absenteeism
- Decreased healthcare costs
- Increased employee productivity
- Strengthened image of caring and responsible employer
- Developed family-oriented corporate culture
- Cost saved on recruiting and training new employees
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