How ‘Serene Quitting’ Grew to develop into The Next Section Of The Enormous Resignation

This is one example of quietquitting, a trend that has been dominating social media andespecially Tik Tok. In July, Zaid Khan, a 24-year-oldengineer from New York, posted a video about quiet quitting, andit went viral. Since then the trend has spread like wildfirewith hashtags like quietquitting, quitting, andquieting. Does anybody want to workanymore? Then the mainstream media becamecovering it. Like working overtime? No,thanks. Late Night emails,.

Ignore those. Quiet quitting is a really badidea. If you're a quiet quitter, you're not working for me. The world is changing. And theway of work is changing. Even people saying I'm not going backto the office. And if I do, I'm definitely quite quitting untilI find a job that is a lot more flexible. Covid was the ultimate reset.Covid was that moment where people start to ask a biggerquestion, what do I want from my.

Life? Do I want to continueworking the way that I have? Or do I want something different?Do I want to continue to work, which is awesome. But do I alsowant to be able to enjoy my family? Do I also want to beable to enjoy my life. So I think all of these things arecoming in stages. And I think quite quitting is just the trendthat's come as a result of the ultimate reset, which is Covid. Something like 40% of workersare now saying they plan to change jobs this year.

The pandemic also triggered thegreat resignation. …to retain people, but they'rereally running scared. Millions of Americans quit theirjobs in 2021. Some for better opportunities. Some for a careerbreak. The pace of quitting continued well into 2022. Thischart tracks job openings and labor turnover in the USeconomy. JOLTs for short. We do think that quiet quittingis part of the great resignation story. So it fits into thegeneral story of having a high level of quits over the pastyear, year and a half, and.

Certainly a very tight labormarket. And in that type of a labor market, it makes a lot ofsense that workers may not be willing to work as hard as theyhave in the past because it's very easy to get alternativeemployment. So the question is what is quietquitting? Quiet quitting is referring to a situation whereemployees are making a choice to not necessarily go above andbeyond what they're being asked to do. It doesn't mean thatthey're not doing their job. They're just not going above andbeyond.

Back in my day was calledcoasting. For me. My last time quietquitting was five years ago, I used to be in tech sales. What Idid was work less. I wasn't putting in the 40 hours anymore.I wasn't giving into the drama anymore. I wasn't giving intowork gossip anymore. I wasn't answering emails or texts orslack messages. You know, DMs after the work days, andweekends were free. They were mine. Even though it's millennials andGen Zers who are actively.

Talking about on social media.Quite quitting has been happening amongst Gen Xers,which I'm part of the Gen Xers for the better part of two tothree years. The anti work movement is not anew trend. In 2021, the ‘lying flat’ or ‘tang ping’ movementtook off in China, many viewed it as an anti work phenomenon.This is a labor protest movement in China against the country'srelentless work culture. Some argue that quiet quitting issimilar to the lying flat movement. In the US, quietquitting could also be a.

Backlash to hustle culture, the24/7 Startup Grind popularized by figures like Gary Vee, andothers. I think it is almost directresistance and disruption of hustle culture, honestly, and Ithink it's exciting that more people are doing it. When it comes to hustle cultureand quiet quitting. We're seeing from Gen Zers, especially thatthey're really focused on ensuring that they have thatwork life balance, and really mission driven purpose when itcomes to work. And we see this.

Across Millennials as well. People are being more honestabout the fact that they just don't want to give beyond the 40hours of work that they normally would get because they're tired. There has been a tsunami of jobresignation. In 2021, the Great Resignationdominated the economic news cycle on or need to remain intheir roles. So in the second quarter of the same year, USproductivity data posted its biggest ever annual drop. Andsome economists blame workers.

Leaving jobs or not trying hardat their current jobs for the hit to productivity. Quiet quitting is probably partof the reason for the slowing in labor productivity. It's hard totell from aggregate data exactly why labor productivity hasslowed so much over the course of the pandemic, but it'scertainly one of the reasons that you would expect to beweighing on labor productivity right now. Employee engagement also appearsto be declining. A recent poll.

From Gallup showed employeeengagement in the US dropping for the first annual decline ina decade, dipping from 36% engaged employees in 2020 to 34%in 2021. Disengagement, not beingengaged, that's affecting the productivity. Mentally, they'rejust not there. And they really aren't giving it their allanymore, and they are just trying to stay under the radarand they are disengaged, that's very much been impactproductivities. I do think quiet quitting is apart of the great resignation.

People are so burnt out, we'vejust gone through and are still going through a pandemic. We arerecognizing that life can be so fleeting and so short, and wewant to spend it doing something we love. And that doesn't meanwork has to be our dream job. I think that myth of the dream jobis slowly or rapidly dying. People that shut down theirlaptop at 5, want that balance in life, want to go to thesoccer game, 9 to 5 only, they don't work for me, I can tellyou that. Labor demand remains a red hotin 2022. That's despite the.

Looming risk of a recession.Economic downturn could make quiet quitting a short livedtrend. Well, if the labor market wereto turn it, you'd imagine that quiet quitting would become lessof a phenomenon. While the risk of you are quietquitter is that the economy would slow and then you couldfind yourself in a situation where you're in a job where youhaven't been given the most effort that you can, and it putsyou at a disadvantage in terms of moving forward at that job.If others have been giving more.

Effort, they're more likely tohave a greater job security than otherwise. So certainly as thelabor market slows, and if we were to go into a recessioncould potentially put those workers at a disadvantage. In addition to talking tothousands of employees per year, I talked to thousands of leadersper year, all the way from your supervisor all the way up toyour C-suite CEOs. And I will tell you that they are botheredby this trend, because it speaks one of two things. One, we haveemployees who are doing their.

Job, but they're not going aboveand beyond. Two, what have we done as an organization to theseemployees that make them feel like they can't give their besteffort. We're evolving as a culture,we're evolving as a people and the workplace is evolving. Andwe need to be okay with it. Because it's the same conceptfor me as people saying just because I didn't have it, meansyou shouldn't have it too. You should have to work hard. Just want to be careful aboutjust saying that quiet quitting.

Is the the, you know, the Gen Zsand the Gen Ys. I think that it can be happening all over theplace. And the more we stay engaged and connected and shareour purpose, the less of an issue disengagement will be andthen hopefully the quiet quitting term will start fadingto the background and we'll see both employees being productiveand well engaged and employers being very successful.

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