What are the pros and cons of an on-site daycare facility and an employee referral program?
Direct childcare and programs that make family care responsibilities easier to achieve come in many different forms in the public institutions and private companies that are taking on the more responsibility for helping their employees with work-family issues. For instance, “some organizations directly subsidize daycare centres or private home daycare placements. Others underwrite the cost of information and resource services, including parent education or financial assistance not only for daytime childcare but also for infant care, after school care, summer programs, emergency/sick care and other work-family issues. Still others offer assistance in the form of flexible work schedules, alternative work arrangements, enhanced benefit packages and leave provisions, or flexible spending accounts, vouchers and placement subsidies” (The Corporate Ethics Monitor, Volume 1, Issue 1, page 7). The possibilities are endless and extremely varied. When an organization is planning a childcare or el
