I'm so naive. I always think if large companies could just provide
quality, subsidized, on-site childcare, workers would have no reason to
"opt out" or ever even really complain about work.
Then I read
about the woes of Google -- yes, "voted top company to work for" Google
-- and how they have totally botched the whole on-site childcare thing,
once again leaving mid- to low-level employees with figuring out how
the hell to reconcile work with raising young kids and pissing off many
employees in the meantime.
The NYTimes has a nice little tell-all piece. In a nutshell, the saga goes something like this:
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