You’ve Heard of Quiet Quitting, Here’s How to Tell If You’re Being Quietly Fired
Quiet firing can be very insidiously damaging to workers
One of the hottest topics in business and hiring news recently has been the phenomenon of “quiet quitting.” Quiet quitting doesn’t refer to employees actually quitting their jobs. Rather, it’s often informally defined as a situation where employees and workers continue to attend their jobs, but do only the barest of the bare minimum of their job duties.
It seems like everyone is talking about quiet quitting, but there’s another important side to that in human resources that’s not nearly as well-known or discussed: Quiet Firing.
What Is “Quiet Firing”?
Like the term quiet quitting, “quiet firing” has only informally been defined, but business publications and management consulting businesses seem to agree that it’s a situation in which management or employers seek to manage the performance of their workers in a passive-aggressive fashion by simply ignoring their work and contributions. In some cases, management might also use quiet firing as a method to encourage employees they no longer value to quit, by making the workplace unpleasant or by refusing to provide such employees with the tools necessary to do their jobs.
