Day Care in the Work Place?

Question

What is needed to start a day care center at work? What does it normally cost, both financially and legally? What are the benefits to the company and how can employees present their case (requesting day care) to their company as a worthy investment? Specifically, this particular company is a non-profit organization in New York City. Also, what are the logistics of the day care itself, once it is opened (what would it cost the employees, etc.)?

Please don't use this space to bash or defend Day Care. That is not my question.

Answer 1

Hmmm.. Do you have a union that could go to bat for you? As far as the logistics of how to set this up:
1. Do a Google search to find companies that offer on site day care as a perk.
2. Contact them and ask how they got it going.

I've heard that SASS in Raleigh, NC has onsite daycare.

Answer 2

since more than 10 hours a week of separation from mom hurts an infant/toddler/preschooler emotionally, intellectually, socially, and physically, the cost to the child involved is very very high. The damage is life-long and the studies have been showing and confirming this for 50 years.

It's actually mother-absence that is the problem and even Mary Poppins, Daddy, Grandma, and university-based day care produce the same sad results in kids.

Employees should work on making sure they can actually be home and raising their young children, as the cost to the child and society and family unit is extraordinarily high. Employers find a benefit from on-site day care, because absenteeism goes down. Yippee!

That your children are damaged is of no concern, because, of course, the fact that you are damaged by their scheduling demands is also of no concern.

The damage from day care is well documented. The chidren detach from mommy, the dad approves of them less, mommy detaches from them, their iqs are lowered, their teachers rate them lower, they are more aggressive, they are more depressed, they have more social problems. Their family is more likely to split up!

Don't believe the lies of the day care industry and the moms who use it. It is very damaging. How could it not be damaging for a primate to separate from its mommy? We are the only primate that doesn't continuously hold our infant throughout infancy.

Answer 3

i work in daycare and i can assure u NO child i have looked after has been damaged from being there. they are all happy bubbley children, if they get the PROPER care they are grand! children understand that mummy is away to work and know that she is coming back. children are smarter and stonger than some people think. even from very young.