Managing People: Helping care for the kids.

Survey showing nine work-schedule policies and the percentage of small companies that offer these benefits.

By Inc. staff | 
 

MARCH 1989

Benefit or work-schedule policy that aids employee child care; % of companies with 10 to 49 employees that offer benefit or maintain policy

Employer-sponsored day care 1.9%

Assistance with child-care expenses 2.4

Child-care information or referral services 4.3

Counseling services 3.8

Flextime 45.1

Voluntary part-time 36.0

Job sharing 16.0

Work at home 9.2

Flexible leave 43.8

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1988.

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