{"id":51,"date":"2012-08-06T21:02:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T21:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.momsbestfriend\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2025-12-11T00:45:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:45:02","slug":"corporate-back-up-childcare","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/corporate-back-up-childcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Back-up Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Corporate Emergency Back-up Care Program<\/h1>\n<p>Austin emergency babysitter services are already available to many local companies. Companies choose to offer a back-up babysitter benefit to employees to decrease absenteeism and promote loyalty. If your company would like to support your parent employees through a corporate babysitter emergency back-up program, we can provide you with a custom quote. <\/p>\n<h2>What is a back-up care program?<\/h2>\n<p>Employers contract with a back-up care\u00a0company to provide emergency babysitter benefits to their employees in case they experience a breakdown in their regular childcare arrangements. Many of the needs are last-minute, and may include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Caregiver is sick<\/li>\n<li>Employee must work overtime and regular caregiver is unavailable<\/li>\n<li>Caregiver is on vacation, has to go out of town, or has unbreakable commitment for the day<\/li>\n<li>Vacations, holidays, breaks or early dismissal at your child&#8217;s school or daycare<\/li>\n<li>Business travel requires care<\/li>\n<li>Other unexpected disruptions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Employers provide subsidized coverage of their childcare in order for their employees to be able to work.<\/p>\n<h2>How does it work?<\/h2>\n<p>Companies contract with a back-up care company to offer the benefit. This may be a direct solution such as Mom&#8217;s Best Friend, or it is often a larger, comprehensive solution such as Bright Horizons, offering additional options such as elder care. When a need occurs, employees contact the backup care company to book care via a call center or emergency\u00a0backup care phone line. Employees are typically allotted a set number of hours per calendar year by their employer, and employees often incur a small deductible\u00a0as they utilize the care.<\/p>\n<h2>Why should companies offer backup care?<\/h2>\n<p>The benefits of a backup childcare program include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduced absenteeism<\/li>\n<li>Recruiting tool for best talent<\/li>\n<li>Reduced staff turnover<\/li>\n<li>Increased productivity<\/li>\n<li>Higher employee morale<\/li>\n<li>Peace of mind for employees knowing that sick childcare arrangements are available<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Do I have backup care? How do I get it?<\/h2>\n<p>Please contact your human resources department to find out if your company offers an emergency childcare benefit. For more information about getting a backup care program started for your company, please contact us:<\/p>\n<h2>(512) 775-5437<\/h2>\n<h4>austinsitter@mbfagency.com<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate Emergency Back-up Care Program Austin emergency babysitter services are already available to many local companies. Companies choose to offer a back-up babysitter benefit to employees to decrease absenteeism and promote loyalty. If your company would like to support your parent employees through a corporate babysitter emergency back-up program, we can provide you with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momsbestfriend.com\/austin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}