Company childcare

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Company kindergarten of the Schultheiss Brewery , Berlin 1949

Company childcare is any form of external childcare that is geared towards the children of employees in certain companies. In a broader sense, university childcare offers for children of students are usually included under this term. Company childcare offers are intended to provide childcare of high quality and flexibility, which improves the compatibility of family and work .

Depending on the age of the children being looked after, one speaks of company crèche , company kindergarten or, more generally, company day-care centers . In particular, these include day care centers whose providers cooperate with the respective company and provide it with places in local facilities, as well as facilities that are borne by the company itself.

The distinction between company and non-company childcare is fluid, as external (non-company) children are usually also cared for.

Characteristics

Company support structures can be adapted to working hours with regard to their opening times. With regard to vacation and closing times, too, the care times are usually adapted to the professional requirements of employees and employers.

Company childcare usually takes place near the company headquarters. This enables parents to accompany their children on the way to or to work and can be reached very quickly if necessary. On the other hand, a distance from the home also means that a longer journey is required if the partner or third party brings and fetches the child.

If you change your employer, you may need to change the type of childcare. Under certain circumstances, the place will no longer be made available to the child. Even in the event that external children are admitted to the care facility, it can be organizationally difficult for parents to use company childcare from the former employer, for example if a childcare place near the (previous) job is no longer affordable after changing jobs is to achieve.

As an alternative to in-house childcare, companies have the option of reserving childcare places in public or private institutions (so-called occupancy spaces ) or granting a childcare allowance.

Germany

According to a survey by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry , half of the companies in 2013 already had or planned to support their employees with childcare, at least in the form of grants; in 2007 this was the case for only a quarter of the companies. Company childcare is available or planned at every third company with more than twenty employees.

By 2012 launched promotion program "Workplace child care" of BMFSFJ is provided a government subsidy of 400 euros per new job created all-day care place and month. This funding is limited to two years as start-up funding.

The “Company Childcare Program” of the European Social Fund (ESF), which ran from 2008 to 2012, also promoted company childcare.

Austria

In Austria, company childcare plays a subordinate role, and (as of 2011) only around 2% of all childcare facilities can be assigned to the company sector.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d ÖIF Working Paper no.75 ( Memento from May 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 241 kB), March 2011
  2. ↑ a b Company kindergartens: We go to work. Perfectly equipped and flexible: daycare centers of large corporations set standards. Can the state keep up? Die Zeit, January 30, 2013, accessed on March 11, 2013 .
  3. ↑ “Company childcare” funding program. Retrieved May 19, 2020 . , BMFSFJ
  4. ↑ Company-supported childcare. (No longer available online.) ESF, archived from the original on 23 February 2014 ; accessed on February 16, 2014 .

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