Team up to form workplace childcare centres

ASK any parent. It is hard to stay focused on work when you worry that your young children are not getting proper care and attention. How do you extract high producti­vity from a workforce that has many such distracted mothers and fathers?

It is indeed a big problem when there are limited options as to who will look after the children while the parents work. Says the International Labour Organisation, “The consequences of lack of access to affordable, good quality childcare go beyond the welfare of individual children and their families and affect the social and economic development of the whole society.”