Childcare comes to one coworking space, so why not everywhere

Childcare comes to one coworking space, so why not everywhereChildcare comes to one coworking space, so why not everywhereWhen you have a child, it changes all your priorities. Whether youre in a corporate job or working on building your own small business, family has to come first. But how? Childcare is enormously expensive.Heres one idea affordable childcare on the premises.The Womens Business Incubator in Seattle is a coworking space offering on-site childcare with a flexible, drop-in preschool.Eva Monsen, Board President and Founding Board Member of the gemeinwohlorientiert and Data Engineering Consultant, talked about the non-profit company designed for parentsin an interview with Medium.A space for work, a space for playThe Womens Business Incubator can still help parents get ahead professionally- it offersmonthly networking events and business workshops, Monsen told Medium.The company will provide a productive office environment, mentorship, community building, access to inte rnet and training, and aims to provide sliding scale memberships as well as provide much needed microloans for small businesses to get started increasing the number of opportunities for businesses and start-ups across a broad economic range, according to its website.So what about the kids? Childcare is right on site. The preschoolis for children between the ages of two and a half to five years old.The business also has a variety of price plans, including aCoWork/CoPlay option, which provides unlimited community coworking with parent-supervised play for infants and toddlers 0 2.5 years old, according to the website.Attention, working fathers you havent been forgotten.Even though its called theWomens Business Incubator, but bothmoms and dads are welcome.Work+ on-site childcare = relatively uncharted territoryAlthough the Womens Business Incubator welches designed to provide enormousflexibility for working parents, the fact that this is considered revolutionary reveals a large void i n the working world- this clearly isntthe norm.Ultimately, I want to see coworking and childcare become as common a childcare option as daycare centers and nannies. People will wonder how we ever got along without it, Monsen told Medium.But in a world where many businesses dont offer childcare services on workplace grounds, at least one has becomeknown for doing so Patagonia, the maker of outdoor wear.Bloomberg reported in 2016 that on any given workday, outdoor clothing and gear company Patagonia has up to 85 children at its headquarters in Ventura, California, and that the company hason-site day care and after-school programs for kids up to 8 years old for its 550 employees.Patagonia stands out because its uncommon.Bloomberg also cited a Society for Human Resources survey that showed that only 3% of organizations offer unsubsidized daycare - which is actually down from 1996, when 9% of organizations provided those services.Goldman Sachs reportedly opened on-site nursery faciliti es in London, Tokyo and New York,according to The Guardian in 2016.Will there be more coming? Only companies can decide that, though there is ample evidence that family-friendly policies act as a powerful recruiting tool.