There is an argument to be made that work and family should never mix.

Without a doubt, if your kid wants to be a part of the family business, it is tempting to go the nepotism route and give them a nicely paid position with you to kickstart (or prolong) their career. Most parents want to see their children do well in life, and there is no more reassuring way to do that than by making sure it happens under your watchful eye.

At the same time, working with mom and/or dad is not necessarily going to help an employee grow professionally. It can give them an unearned sense of authority and make them the kind of coworker who is a real pain to work with for everybody else. From the point of view of other employees, it can also make it more difficult to speak up when such a colleague does something wrong or negatively impacts their work. For those parents who want to work with their children, they have to ask themselves the tough question of whether they are really willing to treat them like somebody whose salary they pay, and not simply a close family member.