Originally Posted by
Beagle
Interesting chat with an industry insider working for Evolve on the weekend.
Management attempting to screw costs down even further.
Evolve now asking parents to pay for their children's attendance on statutory holidays when the kids are not there and the centre's are not even open to provide care if the parents did drop them off ! One wonders if that's even legal. Charging people for a service that's not provided and cannot be provided is surely a breech of the fair trading act ? Thought's anyone ?
On the topic of more and more centres opening up, its absolutely relentless and the feedback I get is that parents have almost no loyalty whatsoever, (doesn't matter how nice the staff are) and are often swayed by appearances, i.e. the new and fancy early child care centre with brand new facilities and play equipment must be better than the older Evolve centre…
For mine...there is no evidence whatsoever that management can stop the rot at NZ childcare facilities which is still the vast majority of their business model and the widespread proliferation of newer centres will keep intense pressure on occupancy, (read profitability), at existing N.Z. centres.