Kathy Kacher, founder of Career/Life Alliance Services, said that “quiet quitting” is a new term for an old concept: employee disengagement.īut it’s arriving in a moment of “unprecedented burnout,” Kacher said.
Young workers are tired, overwhelmed, and dissatisfied, which is precisely the climate in which the four-day workweek is making massive waves. TikTok user zaidleppelin popularised the phrase earlier last month, describing the phenomenon as quitting “the idea of going above and beyond at work”: On quiet quitting #workreform ♬ original sound – ruby It’s less walking away from your job completely, and more renouncing hustle culture and burnout by adopting better boundaries for a work/life balance.įortune describes it as “the latest salvo in the pandemic-era tug-of-war between managers and junior colleagues over work-life balance, making the “hustle culture” of the 2010s a distant memory and replacing it with something of a comeback of Gen X’s 1990s-era slacker culture”. That is, by becoming quiet quitters, which doesn’t quite mean what it sounds like. Millennials might have popularised “burnout” – described as a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity – but Gen Zs are actively trying to avoid it.
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