I am so excited about Halloween each year because I'm a Halloween fiend and I also feel like it's a holiday that one can safely acknowledge and have fun around in the workplace, but we have a new HR coordinator who brought to my attention that there are often religious concerns around it. And I feel like it popped my balloon. I kind of want to keep doing what we're doing with decor etc and simply see if there are any complaints but I also don't want to set a bad example. What's your position?

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Call it fall festival w an optional costume contest/ potluck/ candy exchange. Same w Holiday Festivities w options to gather for dinner, gift exchange etc.

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We have a big family Halloween party at the firm and everyone dresses up, passes out candy to the kids, we do pumpkin carving in the boardroom, and serve up a themed family style meal in the kitchen with great desserts. Huge hit every year. Had 150 people attend last Thursday.

Some people need to chill.

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Can you give us an idea of the kind of decorations you plan to use?

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I like the fall fest idea a lot. And, Halloween can be a very good opportunity to teach about the differences between it and Dia de Los muertos. They are not at all the same and many folks I know are bothered by how conflated they are. So, take the time to put up an offrenda AFTER Halloween and use it as a cultural lesson.

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The issue with many inclusion policies is that they are inclusive. Unfortunately this means that ALL perspectives have to be considered, not just the ones we like. This is often what people mean when they refer to “slippery slope”. What some see as fun, others seem as offensive. In more instances than we realize.

In today's climate, we often have to err on the side of caution and be preventative as much as possible. I can definitely see your new coordinators point and I agree with him to some extent because you don't want to run the risk of offending someone and having it escalate. See if you can meet in the middle with maybe a toned-down version of decorations etc. Talk with the coordinator to make sure it is cleared though.

Could someone explain how Halloween is offensive?

Thanks for this. I really value everyone’s views on this. I see inclusion as an additive practice of broadening everyone’s understanding of each other’s cultures, meaning that we acknowledge everyone’s holidays (not just “western traditional” Christmas and Easter) and meaningful days. Avoiding Halloween because some people don’t like it or choose not to celebrate is subtractive and seems like the opposite of inclusion. For example, Jehovah’s Witnesses also do not celebrate birthdays. Does that mean that, by the Halloween logic, we should also stop celebrating birthdays in the office? If there is a JW child in a school, should the school stop acknowledging all birthdays? I don’t personally celebrate Kwanzaa, Eid, or Easter. Does that mean colleagues can’t acknowledge those days at work and celebrate in my presence?

Looking to food as another example of additive inclusion, isn’t it better for an office canteen to offer kosher and halal options for anyone to enjoy, alongside other options, versus telling everyone that they can’t bring or eat food at work that isn’t kosher and halal because some people eat that way?

I’m really trying to learn and engage in dialogue here. I’m a DEI lead in my org and willing to change my mind when I encounter new facts and perspectives. Not trying to be an annoying devils advocate or to put labor on others to educate me.

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