“Quiet quitting” is not a trend. Like, at all. If you have a coworker that doesn’t want to do their job, your employer has a shitty employee. That’s it, an isolated incident. The term itself is basically the same as boomers screeching about how “nobody wants to work anymore”…
Someone recently used that dumb phrase when telling me about not being able to get timely service at a restaurant. I said to them, “Well maybe they would want to if they were paid honest wages for honest work?” and we haven’t talked since. I don’t think we’re going to be friends anymore.
I think it’s a bit of a misnomer. It’s not that people are abandoning their jobs, it’s that they are abandoning the toxic mindset that says line must go up, that good people are good worker drones for their superiors, etc. It’s more like quitting your career but keeping your job even if in a half-assed way.
If you have a coworker that doesn’t want to do their job, your employer has a shitty employee.
I think it’s less that people don’t want to do any work at all or less than the “minimum” (except for some rare cases), and more that people are doing only the minimum, not putting in any extra effort, not going above and beyond - because their salaries are stagnating, their employers are only paying them the minimum and not a cent more, and their extra efforts are going unrecognized. Ask me how I know. I have seen it myself personally, multiple times at multiple companies, and I have seen it through my friends experiences as well.
In unions, it’s called work-to-rule. Most jobs/companies don’t have unions, so we get “quiet quitting” instead. The more conditions stay the same, or the worse they become, the worse the “quiet quitting” becomes.
If you want to motivate your employees, reward them. Give them something to strive towards. Reward their extra efforts! Don’t just give them the bare minimum and hope that they will keep going above and beyond for you, because that’s not realistic and it’s not sustainable.
“Quiet quitting” is not a trend. Like, at all. If you have a coworker that doesn’t want to do their job, your employer has a shitty employee. That’s it, an isolated incident. The term itself is basically the same as boomers screeching about how “nobody wants to work anymore”…
I just fire back with “nobody wants to pay us anymore” now.
Someone recently used that dumb phrase when telling me about not being able to get timely service at a restaurant. I said to them, “Well maybe they would want to if they were paid honest wages for honest work?” and we haven’t talked since. I don’t think we’re going to be friends anymore.
I think it’s a bit of a misnomer. It’s not that people are abandoning their jobs, it’s that they are abandoning the toxic mindset that says line must go up, that good people are good worker drones for their superiors, etc. It’s more like quitting your career but keeping your job even if in a half-assed way.
I think it’s less that people don’t want to do any work at all or less than the “minimum” (except for some rare cases), and more that people are doing only the minimum, not putting in any extra effort, not going above and beyond - because their salaries are stagnating, their employers are only paying them the minimum and not a cent more, and their extra efforts are going unrecognized. Ask me how I know. I have seen it myself personally, multiple times at multiple companies, and I have seen it through my friends experiences as well.
In unions, it’s called work-to-rule. Most jobs/companies don’t have unions, so we get “quiet quitting” instead. The more conditions stay the same, or the worse they become, the worse the “quiet quitting” becomes.
If you want to motivate your employees, reward them. Give them something to strive towards. Reward their extra efforts! Don’t just give them the bare minimum and hope that they will keep going above and beyond for you, because that’s not realistic and it’s not sustainable.