“Quiet Quitting”: What It’s About and What Can Be Done
What is “Quiet Quitting?”
The term “quiet quitting” refers to employees who put no more effort into their jobs than absolutely necessary. Quiet quitters continue to fulfill their primary responsibilities, but they’re less willing to engage in activities known in the business world as “citizenship behaviors”: staying late, showing up early, or attending non-mandatory meetings.
This term is being billed as a new phenomenon by the media and business, but skeptics question whether quiet quitting is a new trend or simply a trendy new name for worker dissatisfaction. When workers are surveyed annually, they generally have had the same rate of job satisfaction over the past 20 years. Some argue that the term has taken off in part because burned-out or bored workers are simply desperate for a fresh vocabulary to describe their feelings rather than things having dramatically changed.
That said, the fact that the term is being discussed so publicly gives us an opportunity to think about and discuss work, the workplace, and the people who spend many hours there.
Response to Toxic Work Culture
There are some who feel the term–and what it implies–highlights toxic work culture. Ever since the internet has come into our lives…
