I'm guessing they were driving them there and sat in the lobby? Or did they actually bring them in the actual interview?
Comes from this report here:
NEARLY 4 IN 10 EMPLOYERS AVOID HIRING RECENT COLLEGE GRADS IN FAVOR OF OLDER WORKERS
Survey happened December of last year but for whatever reason seems to be making the rounds now.
From the report, it seems as though the 19 percent figure is people who have had a parent or parents actually in the interview, not just drop the candidate off or wait in the lobby.
Like most anything, one can draw whatever conclusions he or she wants from this kind of survey. I suspect that one could survey a completely different set of hiring managers and come up with a different set of statistics. It does not say where the people surveyed come from in terms of specific industry, just that the respondents were 25+ years of age, have annual household income above $75k, work for companies with 10 or more employees, and are a C-Level executives, HR manager, director, president, owner/partner, president, or senior to middle management.