Child Care for Businesses

Building a Family-Friendly Workplace

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The Business Case for Supporting Child Care

Quality child care benefits all workforce industries by enabling parents to work productively outside of the home and attend higher education programs. Employers can support families with children by incorporating certain policies within the workplace.

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Alternative Work Schedules

Having an alternate work schedule allows employees to adjust their work time to balance child care needs and the needs of the business. Some benefits of this includes:

  • Lower absenteeism rates
  • Improves morale and reduces stress
  • Enhances recruitment
  • Extend business hours
  • Economical use of office space and equipment by staggering staff
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Flexible Policies

Other business practices may help staff and the company as well. Policies such as job sharing, teleworking, part-time and compressed work weeks are all practices many businesses enjoy implementing to encourage a productive and healthy work environment.

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ARIZONA@WORK has employment specialists who can answer questions and provide valuable feedback and information to businesses.