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26 Dec 2015

Author:
Meenakshi Rohtagi, Times News Network

Crèche in offices help women strike work-family balance

In many companies, considering the number of women in workforce, in-house care centres for children of employees have become part of the basic infrastructure. These daycare facilities take in children as young as four months old to six years...Cummins has day-care centres in all their offices in India. "Managed by a professional agency , the day-care facilities at Cummins act as an integrated full-day preschool cum creche...General Electric's (GE), multi-modal manufacturing facility, which was inaugurated in February this year, came with a creche, which has various amenities such as medical room, baby feeding room, play area and baby's resting room.

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