Bringing Your Child to Work—Every Day?

Babies are annoying. They cry on airplanes, they cry in restaurants, and if you bring one into a movie theater, you’re just asking to have a bag of Swedish Fish thrown at you. But one place they seem to fit right in is the office.

Parents used to bring their children to work only when there was a caretaking emergency: The nanny was sick, day care was closed, their school had a snow day, or it was summertime and they were simply out of options. That still happens, of course, but now some companies also allow kids to come to the office every day, completely bypassing the need for day care.