Closing the day care is a big deal. I don't know how they justified that; most company daycares cost as much, if not more than regular daycares and are run either at break-even, or at a very small profit.
And it's a huge, huge perk. Taking your kids with you to work allows you to not make a second trip every morning and every evening to go to their daycare (which is never exactly on the way) it's good for morale, it's GREAT for work/life balance, it's good for the environment, and the kids spend more time with their parents.
PG&E closed their daycare at 77 beale (Downtown SF) when they moved their headquarters to the ghost-town building in Oakland and very explicitly announced they had no plans to re-open a daycare. If you're reading this and in a position where you can affect change, definitely consider a daycare on site, it's a very effective way to dramatically increase retention of senior employees.
And it's a huge, huge perk. Taking your kids with you to work allows you to not make a second trip every morning and every evening to go to their daycare (which is never exactly on the way) it's good for morale, it's GREAT for work/life balance, it's good for the environment, and the kids spend more time with their parents.
PG&E closed their daycare at 77 beale (Downtown SF) when they moved their headquarters to the ghost-town building in Oakland and very explicitly announced they had no plans to re-open a daycare. If you're reading this and in a position where you can affect change, definitely consider a daycare on site, it's a very effective way to dramatically increase retention of senior employees.