The purpose of this post is to collect and collate information about companies which have on-site or near-site daycare. This post is focusing on daily-use daycare and mostly ignoring “backup care” and “elder care”. Please feel free to contact me at @compiledwrong with more information about these companies or other companies! Please feel free to use this information with or without crediting this post as a source.

Details which I would like to capture for each company:

  • Company name
  • Childcare name:
  • Any affects on company retention of women:
  • Capacity of daycare center:
  • Waiting list length:
  • Cost of use for employee:
  • Provider:
  • Links / quotes

Benefits to onsite childcare

Employee recruiting & retention

Childcare is often expensive and inconvenient in the USA. This is a benefit which is a hige incentive for parents.

Diversity

Patagonia says that their provided childcare has helped them bring more women into management.

Tax Benefits

The federal government recognizes the value of on-site child care to both working parents and the economy, and grants a qualified child-care program a yearly tax credit of $150,000. In addition, the government allows a company to deduct 35% of its unrecovered costs from its corporate tax bite.

Corporate

Patagonia

  • Childcare name: Great Pacific Child Development Center (GPCDC)
  • Started in: 1983 Source
  • Any affects on company retention: “100 percent of women who take maternity leave return and turnover for parents with kids in the on-site child care programs is 25 percent lower than turnover in the general employee population [at Patagonia]”
  • Company cost: About $1 million a year to run, not including tuition fees, or the costs parents pay
  • Staff employed: 33 total in 2016 (28 in Ventura, 5 in Reno)
  • Capacity of daycare center: 80 (both sites combined, in 2016)
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  • Cost of use for employee: $1,275/month - “maximum cost per month for infants aged 8 weeks to 2 years … and the company subsidizes the cost based on household income.”
  • Provider: ???
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Home Depot:

  • Childcare name: Little Apron Academy
  • Started in: 2012 Source
  • Any affects on retention: ???
  • Company cost: “the company will use child care tax credits to offset the construction of its day care facility. The credits are available to all businesses that offer state-licensed childcare facilities, and range from 75 to 100 percent of the cost of building and operating a facility, spread over several years.” Source
  • Staff employed: ???
  • Capacity of daycare center: 278 Source
  • Waiting list length: “If the daycare’s capacity is reached during sign up, a lottery will determine which children attend the daycare.” Source
  • Cost of use for employee: “competitively priced” Source
  • Provider: Bright Horizons Source
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Alston and Bird

  • Childcare name: The Children’s Campus
  • Started in: 2001 Source
  • Any affects on retention: “Our retention statistics show an improvement of 6 percent since we opened the child-care center.” Source
  • Company cost: “Alston & Bird was able to write off 100 percent of the $4 million cost of building the center over 10 years, explained Hillary Bowers, senior benefits coordinator for the firm, and they can write off 75 percent of the annual operating cost.” Source “Having a benefit that keeps just two associates from leaving pays for the investment made by the firm.” Source
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  • Provider: Bright Horizons
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Chick-fil-A

  • Childcare name: Jeanette Cathy Children’s Center
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  • Capacity of daycare center: 100 infant, toddler and two-year-olds Source
  • Waiting list length: “based upon availability.” Source
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  • Provider: Bright Horizons
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Aflac

SAS

  • Childcare name: SAS Institute Montessori Preschool
  • Started in: 1981 Source
  • Any affects on retention: “SAS’s comprehensive child care program has also financially paid off for the company; they’ve achieved an employee turnover rate of less than 5% (vs. an industry average of 18%).” Source
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  • Capacity of daycare center: 600 Source
  • Waiting list length: “[the employee has to] work at SAS for a year … there is often a waiting list to get in.” Source “spot is very limited and you need to be senior enough, so timing is very critical.” 2016, Source “Daycare on campus-but only if you get them in as newborns. Worst: daycare. It’s a tease because they do not have enough spaces for nearly the number of children in the Cary campus. If you don’t get in as newborn, you never will.” 2018, Source
  • Cost of use for employee: $250/month Source
  • Provider: in-house (Montessori) Source
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Georgia Power/Southern Company

  • Childcare name: Bright Generations Center(s)
  • Started in: 2009 Source
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  • Capacity of daycare center: 150 children Source
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  • Provider: Bright Horizons
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Clif Bar

Publix

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  • Any affects on retention: “The turnover for full-time employees is just 5%.” Source
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  • Cost of use for employee: “comparable other child care facilities nearby” Source
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General Mills

  • Childcare name: General Mills Infant Care Center
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  • Capacity of daycare center: 70 children Source
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  • Cost of use for employee: 360/week 2014, Source
  • Provider: Bright Horizons
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Bank of America

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Campbell Soup

  • Childcare name: Campbell Family Center
  • Started in: 1988 (expanded in 2018) Source
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  • Capacity of daycare center: 150 children Source “There are more than 150 children currently enrolled in the new center, increasing in capacity from 100 places at the old center which was built in 1983.” Source
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  • Provider: Bright Horizons
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TriHealth

  • Childcare name: TriHealth Early Learning Center
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  • Provider: KinderCare
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The Summit Center

  • Childcare name: Discovery Kids Learning Center
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Burns & McDonnell

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Toyota

Northrop Grumman

  • Childcare name: The Launching Pad
  • Started in: 1996
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  • Capacity of daycare center: 168 children
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  • Provider: Bright Horizons
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Marriott

There are about 20 other companies that I have info on and hope to write up.

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