Workplace Childcare

Workplace Childcare


In today’s economic climate, the human resource manager must no longer view the company’s employees as merely line items on an expense report. Gone are the days when the main thrust of the Human Resource department was to merely develop and maintain a non adversarial relationship between employer and employee. The employees of any company are its most important assets, deserving of every dollar invested. The Human Resource department is now viewed as an intricate part of delivering on the corporation’s strategic business objectives by helping to improve work force productivity. “Strategic human resource management involves the productive use of people in achieving the organization’s strategic business objectives, employee satisfaction, and fulfillment of individual employee needs” (Das, Sahoo & Sundaray, 2011). One of the ways today’s corporate HR managers help attract, recruit, and maintain high performance individuals is through the benefits provided by the company to the employee. One of the more recently introduced benefits that the HR manager is looking at within its Work-Life policy is the Work-Based Child Care.
A recent study suggests that if employers want top performing employees they need to pay attention to what drives their over-all well being which is influenced primarily by what is going on in their lives outside of work (Employee’s, 2012). These “well being” drivers consist of health, finances, home life, career, family, education, and other daily interactions. “89 percent of employees with high levels of well-being reported high job satisfaction and nearly 66% of those employees reported consistently putting in extra at work” (Employee’s, 2012). It is no longer prudent to think that when an employee arrives at work that they leave their personal lives at home.
Traditionally companies have offered numerous and generous benefits to all employees, in particular maternity benefits to the working mother. “These women’s workplaces facilitate...

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