At the Wizards center, Rogers says she expects changes will have to be made to increase capacity within a year. She says that feedback from the parents who use the center has been positive so far. While no plans are in the works for an expansion, Brown says her company's centers tend to fill quickly and move to wait listing new children. She adds that at company-sponsored centers, wait lists can cause problems among employee groups. The company may decide to give a promising new job candidate a good position on the childcare wait list as a recruiting tool, and then other parents get pushed back a place.
Wizards has yet to face that problem.
For now, the center seems to be working according to plan. Paine says his daughter gets a lot of personal attention from the center's staff. If anything, they're over-responsive. That kind of attention may help Wizards keep its best employees happy in the long run. Alexandra Purnell Lohr is a Bainbridge Island-based freelancer.