I am a mom of an 18 mo old and started a new job about 4 months ago. Recently, the team had a reorg and I’ve been interviewed internally for a significant promotion. However, I’m also pregnant with my second (20 weeks) and trying to determine when is the right timing to notify my manager. With my first I shared at 20weeks, but with the looming promotion I’m unsure of the right timing—after I sign the offer letter? Especially interested in what HR pros have to say. Thanks! (note: I am posting under my husband’s Amazon account, but I work somewhere else.)
3-6 months into pregnancy. Not sure what promotion has to do with anything...I can understand if you're applying for a new job maybe...pregnancy is not a handicap or special consideration, just something that happens as part of being human. It's like a guy asking when he should tell his manager about his receding hairline now that he is up for promotion.
Obviously the pregnancy should not effect the promotion decision, but there is no reason to relinquish your control of the matter to them and hope they don’t let it influence their decision.
Yeah but in the real world, a manager does not have an additional problem to solve because one of his/her direct reports is, sadly, going bald.
My feeling is that it’s a personal issue that you really don’t need to bring up until it’s physically obvious. At that point they’ll still have multiple months notice, which is plenty of time.
10months in
My approach for this with my second pregnancy, where I was in a similar situation, was dependent on the type of role I was interviewing for. With the future manager I already knew, I did share with him towards the end of the interview process that I was pregnant (I was already pretty sure I was getting the role). For the role I was considering where the manager was not someone I knew, I would have waited for an offer. They did end up making me an offer for the first role and I spent my first 3 months getting up to speed and creating a plan for my maternity leave, which worked out well (I knew exactly how to onboard someone into covering for me efficiently since I had just onboarded!).
At 8.5 months.
Before you start showing lol
I'd wait until promotion. In a good org, it's not a big deal. In a bad org, they might fuck it up
Get the promotion, see your title on hr tool then tell them
I’m wondering if it’s kosher to never announce that you’re pregnant. Just book the PTO and let people make their own assumptions as you start to show. That’s my plan at least - a naive hopefully one day mother
Wouldn't you request maternity leave instead of "book[ing] the PTO"?
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