The clock strikes 4pm. You’ve been working for seven hours. It’s been another day you wish your boss was just about anyone else.
Your watch seems to have stopped – and when it comes to passing the time, that looming project you could make a head-start on sounds like the least appealing thing in the world.
You’ve been to all your meetings, replied to all your emails, and have surely earned the right to do the absolute bare minimum – or perhaps even less – until it’s time to log off.
After all, that promotion you wanted went elsewhere. Your wages are stagnant. You think your employer seems indifferent about you, perhaps it’s time to be indifferent about the job.
If this sounds like you, you may be a classic case of a “quiet quitter”.
But don’t worry, you’re not alone.
Well, maybe worry a bit, but we’ll get to that.
What is quiet quitting?
Quiet quitting has become a buzzword, so much so that this week it was named one of Collins Dictionary’s words of the year (beaten by permacrisis).
The concept really took off over the summer, when #quietquitting began trending on TikTok, as wannabe lifestyle gurus empowered their followers to resist unsatisfying work culture.
Interest in the phrase absolutely skyrocketed, with analysis by Similarweb showing more than 1.2 million online searches during August alone.
Many were people wondering what quiet quitting even is.
“Simply put, it is where an employee puts no more effort into their job than is absolutely necessary,” Anisha Patel, applied research consultant at Steelcase, told Sky News.
You may rightly point out that this sort of thing has been going on for time immemorial, and all that’s changed is a trendy TikTok personality has stuck a new term on it.
I mean, just watch this scene from The Simpsons from back in 1995.
“If you don’t like your job, you don’t strike, you just go in every day and do it really half-assed!”
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Source : skynews
