Why Setting Up an In-Office Crèche Could Be Worth The Effort?

 

The women are responsible for too many things!

Women have to play the role of mothers, wives, and business executives; and each of these roles demands the very best. While this is a seemingly impossible situation, the working moms have to live with this. Because of her shifting roles, the working moms need some support for striking a balance between their responsibilities at home and work.

Over the last few decades a large number of corporate houses, across the world, recognized the fact that they are losing a great part of their skilled and trained employees due to motherhood. Statistics also support that motherhood is a major cause for untimely exists of the women employees. This is because, in most of the cases, the time to bear children clashes with the time of reaching the peak of their career trajectory. This has a negative impact on the business, economy and talent utilization of the nation. Of course, part of them struggle to return to their jobs, but such situation puts the mother under paramount stress, and also make the baby unhappy.

Of late the employers have started understanding the negative impact of this socio-economic problem and are thinking seriously to find the best alternative. Although there is parental leave, this is not sufficient to take 100% care of the growing child. Due to this, some organizations have introduced the practice of working from home for mothers so that they can take care of the child. However, many organizations want to have the cream of their talents working under the same roof and for that, they are now planning to have in-office crèches for the working mothers.

Child care has been a perennial issue for the working moms. Nothing can be more stressful for a mother, than worrying about the child. That is why the present day working women are very choosy. They always prefer to join the organizations, where they are able to take care of the babies. Any organization with an in-office crèche can swing the decision of joining for many women in their favor. Considering the share of the skilled women in the workforce, and their increasing numbers every year, having a crèche in the office has become as essential as the basic infrastructures like desks, computers, and telephones.

Advantages of in-office crèche

Having a crèche at the workplace is worth for the following advantages.

• Convenience: The most apparent advantage of onsite childcare is convenience. Otherwise, one has to drop the babies to a daycare center before coming to work and rush out after the day’s job for picking them up always worrying about the unhappy faces of the daycare center staff, if you are late. With an in-office crèche, you can bring the babies to the office with you and pick them up at the end of the day. Other than saving time and gas, you can also take care of the baby in case of an emergency.  This is a definite plus point as the mothers can concentrate on their jobs.
• Productivity increase: Many organizations across the world are now considering onsite crèche for the sake of having productive employees. When the working moms have no worry about the daycare of their babies and can have several checks during the day, they feel relaxed and become more focused on their jobs. Studies conducted on the working moms also reveal that they become more productive when they have their babies nearby and know that they are being taken care of.
• Attract top talents: Aside from keeping the working moms on the roll happy, onsite crèche is a powerful recruiting tool for attracting the talented childbearing moms, who otherwise would have switched over to others for the sake of ensuring childcare.

·      Increase in employee retention: When the working moms have no worry about the care of their babies, they are likely to stay with the company. Parents are also against taking the babies out of their comfort zones, till they join the school for a full time. So employers can be sure that the women employees will be with them for long, and such long association results employee satisfaction that has a positive effect on the growth of the company.

Onsite crèches deliver long-term financial benefit

While organizing an onsite crèche involves costs, maintenance hassles and formalities, these are financially beneficial in the long run on two fronts. By having in-office daycare the employers can have the best talent available for many years, and the happy employees remain focused on the jobs for increased business performance and generation of profit.

Creating an adorable crèche

Building an adorable crèche is a challenging job.  Other than having the basic facilities and playschool integrated programs, the babies must also be acquainted with nature. Introducing plants in the crèche can help in this respect. When kids play in a natural environment, they become more psychologically developed. However, live plants have many issues. They attract insect and so, cannot be introduced in the kid’s environment. The faux plants have no such worries. These are made absolutely lifelike from prime quality material, and the growing babies can learn about nature having close interaction with the faux landscaping elements without any fear of insect attack or pollen allergy. Artificial grasses can also be used in the daycare centers for making a nice yard for the babies. Other than artificial trees, faux flowers and faux flowering trees can also be used for adorning the center.

Added benefits of faux landscape

 

• Many varieties are available.
• You can get them tailor-made to suit your requirement.
• Provide all-weather landscape.
• They do not shed leaves and, therefore, create no mess.
• These offer easy installation.
• Being a zero maintenance product, there are cost-effective.
• Apart from beautification, these are highly functional for masking floor and wall flaws.

Description

Working moms returning to their jobs after the birth of their child have guilty feelings. Only an in-office crèche can relive such stress and make the baby happy.