Co-working meets childcare

Save your day with cowork and play for parents coworker

If you are working parents who struggling between daily commute, work and family duties, you will love the idea finishing your work stuff while seeing your children taken care of. Mom and Dad entrepreneur could work productively while kids can play and learn safely & happily all in one place.

The benefits of co-working with onsite childcare, in general:

• Juggling threat of all negativity that felt by many home-workers, such as; procrastination, stagnation and isolation.
• Having enough sleep, less feeling guilt if taking more career time between family duties.
• There is no long, stressful commute between work and day care anymore.
• Efective and flexibility during breastfeeding.
• Still having quality time together.
• Kids still having parents protection while be there.
• No more household chores to be done.
• Having worker parents buddy you can count on.

In reality, combining co-working spaces with childcare seems complicated and too much obstacles. From financial & operational strategy, qualified staff, salaries, local regulations, licensing, property lease terms and healthy & safety. On the Everything Coworking Podcast, Diane Rothschild — former President and CEO of NextSpace and Chief Mom of NextKids, discusses the challenges and necessities for operating a successful coworking space with on-site childcare.

Rothschild notes that the right timing, the right partners, the right building structure, the right childcare philosophy,etc., cost remains one of the important key to thriving childcare coworking spaces.

Another obstacle is how you manage to promote this on-site childcare coworking space concept. Many people (falsely) believe, on-site childcare will create a noisy and distracting coworking space, which is almost never the case, and it could solve with sharing session event between members and new member.

Co-working spaces which also offer on-site childcare:

United States:
- Brooklyn Explorers Academy, Preschool and summer programs
- The Workaround NYC, Babysitting exchange
- Womens Incubator Seattle, drop in preschool and cowork/coplay
- Play Work Dash Virginia
- Nido North Carolina, Montessori classroom

Canada:
- Toronto: Working Ensemble on-site childcare and Cultiv8tor family-friendly coworking community also offer camp programme.
- Calgary: The Bridge Coworks

United Kingdom & Europe:
- UK: Third door London, Officreche Brighton, Co-Creche impactHub Birmingham
- France: Cowork Creche Paris, the associative nursery
- Germany: Rockzipfel Leipzig
- Italy: CoBaby PianoC, Qf Milan and L’alveare (Rome)

Asia:
- Singapore: Trehaus, Kids atelier
- Japan: Hatch Cowork + Kids, Ryozan Park Otsuka

Australia:
- Sydney: Upswing
- Melbourne: Happy Hubbub, childcare benefit and childcare rebates
- Perth: BubDesk, Childcare + Parent Workspace

Feeling interested :)? Keep connect with your children while getting your work done!

Stay tune for the next article ;)

Originally published on Remote Office.