2023-04-22 12:46:28
Who is watching over us? Children play in a day care center in Hildesheim.
Bild: Kai Nedden
The day-care center expansion has doubled the number of teachers in a decade and a half. More people work in early education than in the auto industry. But the staff shortage becomes a bottleneck by the end of the decade.
MAnne Rübsam-Rivierre sent out more than fifty applications when she was looking for a daycare place for her first child. The Berliner was under stress. “My boss at the time belonged to the old school. He had absolutely no understanding of the fact that having children also changes working life,” she recalls. “But complaining and moaning doesn’t help.” So the project and event manager at the time decided to get to the root of the problem and offer childcare herself: Work’n’Kid helps parents to reconcile job and child.
In Berlin’s Kiez Friedrichshain, Anne Rübsam-Rivierre offers coworking with childcare. There are currently six places that parents use by the hour or by the day. Work’n’Kid is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The workplace with childcare by trained staff costs an incredible 15 euros net per hour. “It only works through cross-subsidization. We also offer our rooms for events and organize events ourselves,” explains the 42-year-old managing director.
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