December 2019 Group Watch: Employers Recruiting With Affordable Childcare
An avalanche of 25,000 new jobs over the next five years threatens to bury North Alabama on its own success, sending business leaders scrambling for new ways to entice millennials to fill those jobs. In the hunt for solutions, employers rediscovered an old problem: Childcare is expensive. Mazda Toyota Manufacturing surveyed its employees and found half of them were concerned about affordable childcare. Employers are looking at covering part of the cost of childcare as an employee benefit. Companies that address this issue are said to have a greater chance of employee retention.
