Corporate leaders at Dominion Bankshares Corporation
established an on—site child care facility at its
operations center for its Roanoke, Virginia employees.
The immediate supervisors of parents of children enrolled
in the Dominion Child Development Center were surveyed to
determine the factors they believed affected worker
productivity and their perceptions of how employees' work
habits had changed as a result of the opening of the
child care center. A description of the demographic
characteristics of persons who supervise employees who
use Dominion Bank's Child Development Center is included.
The supervisors of persons using the on—site child
care center were primarily white males from 36 to 45
years old with ten or fewer years experience with the
corporation. These supervisors perceived that employee
productivity is mostly affected by employee morale,
emotional stress level, and absenteeism. Supervisors
believed that employee morale, productivity, and
absenteeism related to child care improved after the
opening of the Dominion Child Development Center.
Some corporate leaders call the lack of affordable,
licensed child care an economic problem for our society.
Many supervisors are not aware that their emp1oyees'
child care dilemmas affect job performance. Inservice
training could provide educational opportunities to
improve attitudes and increase awareness.
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