For example, at a large company in Salt Lake City, on-site employer-sponsored child care reduced worker turnover, with 92 percent of pregnant women returning to their jobs after childbirth.

Advocates like Mr. LaSpina always stress the home's supervision, but privately they worry what will happen if something isn't done soon to stem worker turnover.

In recent years, the country has been battered by high inflation, anemic economic growth, fleeing business investment and rampant worker turnover and absenteeism, which crippled companies and social services.

Piece rates initially raised worker turnover, potentially a serious problem in an industry in which the rate can be 50 percent to 60 percent annually.

They've been encouraged to bargain for such benefits to accommodate the growing number of two-earner families in the labor force and to cut down on worker turnover.

Implications for worker turnover are also ambiguous.

Besides high inflation and low growth, Sweden in recent years has been battered by balance-of-payment deficits, currency crises, fleeing business investment and worker turnover and absenteeism.

He told us Egypt was a better producer than countries who use migrant labor, though Egypt does suffer from high worker turnover which damages operational efficiency.

This response is no act of charity but rather a strategy for attracting applicants from a labor pool that increasingly comprises two-earner families and for cutting down on worker turnover.

In the second, where worker turnover is almost nil, down time amounts to three per cent.