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The Journal.

How Employer-Funded Child Care Can Work

The Journal.

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, Business News, News

4.25.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Providing child care for employees may not seem like a savvy business choice, but some companies swear by it. WSJ’s Harriet Torry explores the different approaches – and the benefits – at businesses both large and small. Further Listening: - The Labor Shortage That's Causing More Labor Shortages Further Reading: - What One Employer Found When It Started Providing Child Care - More Companies Start to Offer Daycare at Work Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In the town of Floyd, Virginia, on a morning earlier this week, parents were dropping off their young kids at daycare.

0:12.0

How's he doing this morning?

0:14.0

What this?

0:16.0

What this?

0:18.0

What this? What this?

0:19.0

I did it.

0:21.0

This child care center is called the Yellow Hen.

0:24.0

It's homey with warm lighting and kid-sized wooden tables and chairs.

0:29.0

Do you want to try this model track?

0:31.0

Sure.

0:32.0

We're buying me. But the yellow hen isn't operated by the

0:37.0

but the yellow hen isn't operated by your typical

0:40.3

child care providers it's actually run by a coffee company. It's called Red

0:46.1

Rooster Coffee. And it's building on Main Street, they roast beans and have a

0:50.9

popular cafe. The Yellow Hen, the Child Care Center, is a benefit.

0:55.7

A perk Red Rooster offers its workers to boost retention and attract employees.

1:00.3

When you were setting up the Yellow Hen, did anybody tell you that you were crazy?

1:05.4

Oh yeah all of my friends who run businesses said that I was crazy.

1:09.6

That's Hayden Paulino Hensley who who co-owns Redrooster coffee.

1:15.0

Why did they say that?

1:17.0

Well, because they said, you know, how are you going to focus on the main thing that you do, which is to roast great coffee, you know, like how

1:26.6

do you grow that part of your business when you're distracted by having to run a daycare,

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