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Two client experiences to amplify the excellent points made by Sarah Green Carmichael in her Bloomberg article about the #childcarecliff: First, "Thus, perhaps the most valuable benefit is for employers to offer daycare close to the workplace. Yet only 6% offered?onsite or “near-site” child care in 2022, according to SHRM. I understand the reticence: Opening a day care center is expensive. And the benefit helps employees in a particular phase of their lives; only about 11% of workers are parents of a child under the age of five (although perhaps this number would be larger if care were easier to find)." Actually, onsite child care centers benefit the coworkers of the parents who use the center too, but they are rarely included in the ROI calculation: A few years ago, I contributed to an ROI analysis of an onsite childcare center as part of a broader flexible work strategy execution. Instead of just surveying the parents who used the center, we surveyed the entire workforce. Here's what we found: colleagues of the parents who used the onsite care reported THEIR productivity improved because the center allowed their coworkers who used it to not call in sick as often and to focus undistracted on their jobs. Overall, we estimated the annual ROI was 200%! In other words, if the annual cost to run and subsidize the center was $1MM per year, the estimated savings in less turnover, lower absenteeism, and increased productivity was $2MM per year. Pretty solid investment. "And yet there are benefits to offering onsite care, which might be the only viable solution for employees whose jobs require odd hours, such as?airport workers." This can't be emphasized enough: There was a supervisor I worked with in a 24-hour manufacturing facility who introduced a creative employee-led scheduling system vs. a tenure-based one. What motivated him was a worker on the night shift who kept asking to go to the bathroom. Concerned, he followed him and found he was going to his car to check on his daughter, who was sleeping there because his wife, a nurse, also had to work the night shift that week. Thankfully this boss used that insight to make a change that allowed the father to request the day shift when his wife worked nights even though he was a newer team member. But not everyone is so lucky. Child care is infrastructure. Hopefully someday we, in the U.S., will realize that. #talent #performance #worklifefit #worklife