Leaders, Recognize & Minimize Quiet Quitting Before It Spreads Throughout Your Team
Acting your wage, silent quitting, silent resignation, whatever you call it, it’s bad news and you don’t want it in your team
Leaders constantly struggle to keep their teams engaged. For many years, I managed an organization’s employee engagement survey process and one thing I learned is that employee engagement depends on an employee’s boss.
That’s the good news. If a member of your team is disengaged, it’s well within your power to turn the situation around.
But is your team member simply disengaged? A new issue is occurring in the workplace. Quiet quitting.
What’s the difference? From what I can gather, quiet quitting is more intentional than being merely disengaged.
Quiet quitting occurs when employees gradually stop applying discretionary effort and eventually disengage from their work. An employee is quiet quitting if they work only their agreed-upon hours and no more or, in more extreme cases, become unproductive and uninterested in work.
Silent resignation, silent quitting, or acting your wage, whatever you call it, the behaviors inherent in quiet quitting aren’t good for business or you…
