Toyota to Open Childcare Centers at U.S. Factories
Toyota is expanded a childcare program at its U.S. factories. Photos courtesy Toyota Motor Corp.
PLANO, TX—To attract and retain workers, manufacturers are experimenting with new incentives, such as part-time and flexible hours. Other companies, such as Toyota Motor Corp., are offering on-site childcare.
Toyota North America has been providing onsite, 24-hour-a-day care for employees’ children at its Georgetown, KY, assembly plant since 1993, and at its Princeton, IN, facility since 2003. Now, the automaker is expanding the program at is factories in Blue Springs, MS; Buffalo, WV; Huntsville, AL; and Liberty, NC.
Each of the new childcare centers is being developed in collaboration with third-party providers and will align with plant production schedules, helping to ensure that employees can balance work and family responsibilities.
“We know it is paramount for working parents to have access to quality childcare, and manufacturing is not always a 9-to-5 job,” says Denita Neville, vice president of Corporate Shared Services at Toyota. “Offering childcare motivates and empowers our team members, makes our industry more inclusive and helps our smallest learners of today become our biggest leaders of tomorrow.”
According to Neville , all of the childcare centers will feature an age-based curriculum for children aged six weeks to five years, promoting learning through motor development, as well as physical, cognitive and social-emotional growth. They will be equipped with a commercial kitchen, a STEM room and an outdoor playground.
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