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Is this really standard at any tech company? When I was at Google they had some deal with a local day car franchise, but it wqs just a discount or something.

• BeetleB 8y ago
  Not sure that the article does a good job explaining this. In my company, they do provide this (or a similar perk). As an employee, you are responsible for "regular" day care, which I don't think is being discussed here. What is being discussed is backup/emergency daycare. As an example, my kid goes to some kind of school/preschool. But things happen (bad weather, etc) that causes the school to close on a given day. One option is that I stay home and take care of the kids, but then it becomes a gray area: How much of my time at home am I actually working? Should I use vacation time for this? So the "perk" is that I come to work, and arrange for some kind of "emergency" day care just for that day. My employer will pay for that. I think at my company, this is mostly optional. However, depending on your job function, you may simply really have to be at work for some reason on that particular day, so the company pays for the daycare for that day.
  • dantheman 8y ago
    Is there any reason parents can't just buy this service for themselves?
    • BeetleB 8y ago
      Of course they can. Just like they can pay for any other perk their company provides (parking, public transit credits, meals, health insurance, etc).