Google Daycare: Take II
Posted by Petrice Gaskin at Jul. 07, 2008
Last month I wrote a post about the battle over daycare occurring at Google's Mountain View campus.
According to a column* in the New York Times, Google set up a series of focus groups to guage the reactions of its employees to the 75% price hike that will accompany Google's brand spanking new daycare facility. Parents openly wept at three of the four meetings. Not to be deterred, Google has decided to continue with its plan to open a daycare facility that will cater to its wealthiest employees, although they have decided to offer some employees scholarships to the new facility.
Google also found a solution to it's 700 individual long daycare waiting list--they decided to begin charging a fee for being on the list. Problem solved.
* It feels a little too opinionated to actually be an article, but the New York Times has not labeled it a column.
According to a column* in the New York Times, Google set up a series of focus groups to guage the reactions of its employees to the 75% price hike that will accompany Google's brand spanking new daycare facility. Parents openly wept at three of the four meetings. Not to be deterred, Google has decided to continue with its plan to open a daycare facility that will cater to its wealthiest employees, although they have decided to offer some employees scholarships to the new facility.
Google also found a solution to it's 700 individual long daycare waiting list--they decided to begin charging a fee for being on the list. Problem solved.
* It feels a little too opinionated to actually be an article, but the New York Times has not labeled it a column.