Click to play videoNew Delhi: It can be heart breaking and nerve-racking to leave your baby at home and go to work. But what if you could take your toddler along?
Phone calls, emails, excel sheets, and then a quick kiss from her daughter. It's all part of a regular day at work for Arati who is an employee of Xansa Technologies. While Arati attends to deadlines, her son and daughter play in the crèche just a floor away.
Arati says, “You know they are physically close to you. Even if they are not feeling well, they are just a call away. So you don't have to take leave because your kid is not feeling well."
A job like Arati's comes with lunch breaks, coffee breaks and cuddling breaks. Xansa Technologies has had an in-house crèche since 1998.
Xansa BPO COO Shailaja Puranik says, “Great relief, especially to women, who don't have to compromise on career or family. And it helps us in employee retention."
Day care centers are already mandatory for factories that employ women. But the Ministry of Women and Child Development is now trying to make crèches compulsory at corporate offices too.
Many companies are already doing their bit. Microsoft has an annual Bring Your Child to Work Day. It's annual, because – well kids like to take things into their own hands.
With about 88 kids in your office, you might not get any work done but no one thinks it matters because it's all work and all play.
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