I think you greatly over-estimate the ease of hiring someone to run child-care for your company. Are they skilled at it? You don't know, their resume looked go

I think you greatly over-estimate the ease of hiring someone to run child-care for your company. Are they skilled at it? You don't know, their resume looked good to you, but your expertise is elsewhere. Are their policies correct? Again, you don't know. Are your liabilities reasonably covered? Who knows? And you still have to manage that person on a day to day basis. You have to be able to fire them if they screw up, you have to know whats going on in their department. You can educate yourself, but again you won't become an expert and that's time you could spend building your business. Even for Apple, and Tim Cook, it's easier to rely on the competitive market to provide child-care. The best of all worlds would be to rent space to a child-care provider, and bid out the service to get the best child-care possible. There are still issues, such as you don't want the low bidder, and you have to do research to pick the best bidder. But at least you aren't running it day to day.