QUIET QUITTING
TikTok video highlighted a worry with Gen Zers that was viewed 2.6 million times in the first week. A young man sat in a New York City subway station talking about “quiet quitting.” Quiet quitting is when workers perform their work duties at minimum level, because they are not buying into the “hustle” (fast paced) or “highly engaged” (super
attention) culture required at many jobs — and refuse to allow work to control their lives. In the old days, working the bare minimum at a job was called “slacking at work,” “coasting at work,” “checked out,” or “not going above and beyond.”
Some employers are reacting to quiet quitters by doing what is known as “quiet firing.” Quiet firing is where the employer does not fire the worker, but silently reduces the number of work shifts and hours so that the worker will quit, and save the employer the hassle of firing the worker.
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