How do I cope with the challenges of Pregnancy while maintaining professionalism?

Hi guys! I have a situation. I hold an offer from a company now. And only after the offer was released, we realised our pregnancy. What would be the right thing to do now. Should I tell the new company about this and how will my maternity leaves be impacted? Is it not wise to join the new company even after knowing the situation? Or how do I handle this 🥺

Women who have rejoined rat race after pregnancy I have ultimate respect for you. Pregnancy is not easy. Post paturm is not easy. Working a job while having a new born baby is definitely not easy. But if your answers are about this, rather than the skills I am hiring for, how do I make a judgement if you can do the job? I think bit of it stems from them feeling left out, guilty of taking a break. Why can't they view it as a challenging phase of life and focus on their individuality. Easier said than done, but sincerely HR who doesn't know if I can hire you

Everyone knows about the relatively young median age we have India. So consequently, we are going to be having a burst of newly weds and their subsequent kids. This would also be a generation where we see both parents working instead of one parent staying home(rent ain't cheap). So, few questions to new parents who are both working jobs: What were major problems/stressors you faced in early years of parenting ? (Specifically between 0-2 years of age where babies require alot of care) What parts of early years of parenting strained your work life the most? What parts of the early years of parenting gave you guys the most joy? Would love to know more.

How to manage workload with new born baby. I just had a baby and feeling a lot of pressure with office work as well as parenting. I want to give lot of time to my baby but it's not getting possible. My wife is on paternity leave and doing most of the baby work. I feels like I am missing lot of things in this phase of my child. Please suggest something.

Last month I posted about firing a female employee after maternity that created a debate: https://share.gvine.app/fdu9iQyCrQP6Ehn89 For anyone interested in how things turned out, here it is... TLDR: Employee/new mom filed an FIR, police closed it after she admitted she quit after we tried to put her on a PIP. (In FIR she said she was wrongly terminated) The women's commission of India summoned me after and it was an experience! I got scolded for about 2h by four women... but in the end they just scolded me like angry teachers? I guess they tried to give the lady some satisfaction by humiliating me. Pretty sad if that's all they can do to represent women with genuine cases. Overall the average grapevine user said I was in the wrong for putting a new mom on a PIP, regardless of performance before and after pregnancy. Most critical folks told me I should've informed the employee about performance issues before maternity. Lawyers say I made the right choice and protected the company. It's a bit messed up that laws designed to protect women at work end up making things worse for them. Because of legal fear we went directly to a formal PIP with recorded calls with HR, the direct manager and others refused to do anything without legal advice. But in the end, she filed a case, so perhaps the cold approach recommended by lawyers was sadly correct. Lastly, I finally saw that outside of my own business echo chamber (both men and women business people), society holds pregnant women and new moms valuable above all else. Someone like me who is a bachelor & slave to capitalism has a totally different set of values, as such some people think I'm fair game for insults. But I hope by making products of value I can make a positive impact in my own way. Thanks for providing your perspectives.

Dear Fellas, I hope who so ever is reading this post is doing great. I need a personal advice from all of you who have started 30's journey with a wife and newly born kid ( 2-3 months old). I am working with analytics role with a Edtech renowned company for 2 years now. Due to following reason I feel like I to switch : 1. Job insecurity ( lay offs) - (however they don't have any replacement to my role.) 2. Very short sighted leaders. 3. Very low increments even with maximum ratings. 4. Sir & Ma'am like culture. 5. They poke for working from home even with genuine reasons. 6. Strictly time bounded culture. 7. Less chances for promotion as sometimes I give priority to my personal life. So I want a suggestion that does it sound good to rejoin to the analytics consulting roles. Will that make my life easy or this is not the right time looking at the market situation.

Hi i am 2 months pregnant and have received an offer from EY with 30% hike. I am confused if i should drop my papers and switch ? as it can be an issue going for hybrid workmode and then taking maternity very soon. i am in the Bangalore location of Globant so i dont have to go to office presently.

Am I the asshole? After a few months clear to me an employee was taking company for a ride. Average a few days a week in the office, otherwise sick/on errands, delivered no work. CTC 55L. Before I could fire her, she announced she was taking Maternity leave a few months into the job. Well crap guess I need to pay her for 6 more months more because of laws I don't understand. Rip my bank account. She returns, same issues. I put her on a pip & she resigned telling me I'm sexist and it will be hard to find a new job now. I say sorry, performance was bad, she can do pip and stay if things are better. She askes for 2 months salary and i agree. A lawyer calls telling me I need to pay more or they will file a case. Said I discriminated to her, and it's not legal. I think this person is a bully/psycho/self entitled. But am I the asshole?