I am interested in management issues people may have experienced when a child care facility for 0-6 year olds was provided on the workplace site. Some of the issues may include:
– protocols for parents leaving work floors to attend to children (eg sickness, behavioural problems, breastfeeding or just interaction);
– protocols for dealing with sick children attending the child care
– bringing children into the work space
– allocation of child care spaces if the demand outstrips supply
– take up rates and a guestimate of the demand per 1000 employees
– reaction of non-parents
– reaction of those employees for whom work-based child care does not suit them
– other advantages or disadvantages of on-site child care.
Susan Kehoe