Charles Bonello, CEO and co-founder at child care benefit company Vivvi, has seen first hand what happens when employees struggle to find appropriate care options for their children. When he was the managing director of Grand Central Tech — a technology ecosystem — he would hear the worry in the voices of the employee parents who would come to him looking for employer sponsored child care benefits that didn’t exist.
“It got to the point where once a week somebody would come in and be on the verge of tears and say ‘I’m pregnant,’’ Bonello says. “The next week they would come back in tears and say ‘did you know it costs $3,500 to put my kid in daycare… is it even worth it for me to go back to work?’”
