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ATTRIBUTES
  • Workplace Flexibility

SOURCE
  • International Finance Corporation

TYPE OF RESOURCE
  • RReport

TARGET AREA
  • Family-friendly, Strategy

TARGET UNIT
  • Human Resources, Senior Leadership

LINK TO RESOURCE

Tackling Childcare - A Guide for Employer-Supported Childcare

International Finance Corporation
This report is based on practical insights from 10 companies and provides detailed information on the business case for employer-supported childcare, and how to design and implement a childcare strategy.Tackling Childcare is an initiative from IFC to better understand employer-supported childcare and to assess private and public sector dimensions to address childcare.

Designing a childcare strategy:

  • Assess employees’ needs for childcare (i.e. availability, affordability, accessibility, quality)
  • Review options for meeting employees’ needs including:
    1. Regular and/or intermittent childcare needs options: on-site childcare, cooperation with other companies, bring-your-child-to-work options
    2. Options for facilitating parental caregiving: maternity, paternity, and parental leave; breastfeeding; flexible work arrangements; information and referral services

Finalizing and implementing a childcare strategy includes:

  • Review business goals and resources that support childcare strategy
  • Understand the regulations and partnering possibilities
  • Communicate widely and seek input
  • Pilot programs
  • Set baseline, establish metrics, assess program impact and success
  • Integrate childcare strategy to broader corporate objectives (i.e. gender equality strategy)

To obtain more detail on this report, click here.