My friend/coworker and I work in a department of 5 people, the other 3 all being our superiors on different levels. They are all older Japanese men, and there are definite culture differences.
She is almost 7 months pregnant, and although I am organizing a baby shower for her at work, I do not think my bosses would want or feel comfortable attending. In the Japanese culture, things such as baby showers are very much ” a woman’s thing”. However, I feel that her having a baby is a huge life event and that our department should all pitch in on a nice present or gift card to present her with before she goes on maternity leave.
What do you think?
I work in an office of 300 in a huge global corporation. So the baby shower would be for select people from the office whom my friend knows and would like to be there.
Also, my department always pitches in on cake for birthdays, which I guess is not a very Japanese older man thing to do, but they still do it.
Trevor









