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Employee Child Care Benefit Plans for a Sustainable Workforce
Washington Families Thrive specializes in providing tailored employer-provided child care benefit packages to employers, HR consulting firms, and insurance brokers in Snohomish County. Our mission is to create family-friendly workplaces by offering high-quality, affordable child care benefits services to employers.
Your Washington-based organization needs a benefits plan that helps sustain your workforce and gives your employees the ease and peace of mind that their children are safe and well cared for while receiving high-quality academic education during their work hours.
Most employer benefit plans do not include workforce child care solutions. Washington Families Thrives offers your employees a comprehensive child care benefit package.
What are pain points for employers around child care?
HR professional at a public institution: We offer child care benefits through Bright Horizons and KinderCare, but cost and capacity are barriers — Bright Horizons is unaffordable for some employees, and KinderCare has limited openings. Proximity to these centers is also a challenge for many staff. Additionally, low digital literacy and limited English proficiency prevent some employees from accessing these benefits.
Administrator at a law firm: Productivity is critical, and we use technology to monitor performance. When a legal staff member struggles to meet metrics, it increases stress on colleagues. We offer flexibility—allowing remote work a few days a week—but have had to let go of employees who consistently fall short on productivity.
Nonprofit Executive Director: We strive to be flexible, but when staff lack child care they cannot keep regular hours or attend weekend events, which frustrates colleagues. Limited access to care has also cost staff leadership development opportunities and important team‑building experiences.
Senior Benefits Consultant: As major employers like Microsoft and Amazon require more in-office work, other companies will likely follow, and coordinating reliable child care will become a major pain point for employers.
Director at a local nonprofit: Some staff delay their parental leave to secure child care or must transfer their child to a different provider when arrangements fail. One employee even resigned after being unable to find satisfactory care. Losing a team member, postponed leave, or the stress of searching for care significantly disrupts work, team capacity, and morale.
HR professional at a public institution: Employee absences strain team productivity and trigger additional call‑outs. Chronic understaffing has forced us to lower expectations around productivity and delivery.
