Let’s Talk About This Quiet Quitting Trend
The new work trend these days seems to be quiet quitting. It makes sense because in a potentially slowing economy where life is getting more expensive (thanks inflation), not as many people want to actually quit. It’s not like in the early days of the pandemic where home seemed safe and the government was blasting out stimulus checks and rent forgiveness. These days we need to work to pay our ever inflating bills.
Enter quiet quitting, which refers to the practice of doing the bare minimum to keep a job. So is this a good or a bad thing? Depends who you ask. If you ask company managers, they will of course say it’s a bad thing — to them quiet quitting is no different from slacking off. If you ask the workers themselves it’s probably more of a split.
Some will speak favorably about workers taking back their time and refusing to be taken advantage of by their companies. Others might be annoyed that some of their teammates have taken a noticeable step back, which means even more work (yet the same pay) for those that haven’t quietly quit.
I think there’s several factors that need to be considered when discussing quiet quitting:
- What’s the reasonable amount of work (or level of commitment) that companies deserve from their employees?
- If reasonable is met, what’s the trend…
