Remote work is changing when people announce a pregnancy. Is that a good thing?

Disclosing a pregnancy at work has long been—for lack of a better word—uncomfortable. Too often, unsolicited advice from colleagues and assumptions about one’s career trajectory follow hot on the heels of an announcement.

In many ways, remote work, which increased for many during the pandemic, has served as an antidote to that. Suddenly parents-to-be found they could keep pregnancies private for as long as they wished. And many did just that.

The logic behind waiting to tell (beyond personal privacy, of course) includes postponing the indignities of things like “benevolent sexism”—when colleagues do unasked for things like reducing your workload assuming you’ll want to do less—as well as outright retaliation and discrimination.

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