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Featured Job Survey: What About The Children?

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So far, we’ve posted three sets of results from last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on leave and part-time arrangements:
 • your thoughts on whether you would rather work fewer hours for less pay,
 • a running table of firms’ paid maternity leave policies (mirrored here and updated today to add King & Spalding), and
 • a breakdown of part-time and flex-time availability.
Today we’ll discuss a fourth set of results: childcare support. But first, a fresh survey! One reader of the maternity leave results made an interesting point in the comments:

I would imagine these stats to be far less important to working moms than how permissive a firm is with flexible schedules. The maternity leave is a one time deal at the very beginning of the baby’s life, but the child will need the mom to be there for far longer.
Also, family friendly policies such as long maternity leave and flex schedules provide significant benefits to society in general. Firms too benefit in many ways.

Some of yesterday’s results suggest our tipster is right, but which policies really matter most to you? Let’s find out:
Update: This survey is now closed. Click here for the results.
Find out how law firms fare on childcare options after the jump.


A plurality of respondents, 46%, said their firms offer emergency backup corporate childcare. Nine percent reported that their firms offer emergency backup childcare at home. Roughly four percent of respondents are at firms that offer near-site childcare, and another four percent are at firms that have on-site childcare. Thirty-five percent of respondents, however, said their firms offered no childcare support at all.
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Justin Bernold is a Director at Lateral Link, the sponsor of this survey.

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