I’m pregnant! how do I announce it at work?
A reader writes:
My husband and I simply discovered that I’m pregnant, after attempting for a number of years! I’m extraordinarily excited, but in addition realized that I don’t know how one can announce this at work. I’ve solely been at my firm for about 18 months and, in that point, nobody else on my staff has had a child so I’m undecided how that is usually carried out. I vaguely keep in mind folks doing it at earlier jobs, however I by no means paid consideration to how they introduced it and even when of their being pregnant we have been instructed.
Complicating issues (perhaps), I’m a supervisor and so along with having to inform my very own boss and my friends, sooner or later I would like to inform my staff too they usually’ll in all probability have their very own set of worries about what it means for them once I’m on go away: who shall be filling in, how issues shall be dealt with whereas I’m out, and so forth.
I’m additionally a little bit nervous that this isn’t nice timing. One among my counterparts is out on a long-term medical go away, and I do know my boss’s workload has been increased consequently. I do know she’ll be comfortable for me, however I additionally wouldn’t be stunned if it’s not precisely welcome information from a workflow perspective.
Anyway, what’s the etiquette right here? When do I announce, who do I inform first, and what else do I have to know?
You’ll be able to learn my reply to this letter at New York Journal at the moment. Head over there to learn it.