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Quiet quitting. Quiet firing. Quiet thriving? Maybe being quiet isn't the answer [1]

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Date: 2022-12-15  

“Quiet quitting” was a fake trend of the late summer, one that the preferred media outlets of the corporate class whipped up into a big reason for worry and a new catchphrase to pressure workers to push themselves to their limits at work and never, ever set boundaries. The claim that workers were “quiet quitting,” AKA treating their jobs as jobs rather than the sole reason for living, was used to threaten that alleged quiet quitters would suffer consequences down the line. While the fakeness of the trend isn’t really in doubt, it keeps spinning out into new terms and new alleged workplace trends. “Quiet quitting” becomes “quiet firing” becomes, this week, “quiet thriving.”

“As a workplace phenomenon, workers’ mild disengagement is about as novel as cubicles, lunch breaks, and bleary-eyed colleagues stopping by your workstation to mutter, ‘Mondays, amirite?’ What the kids are now calling ‘quiet quitting’ was, in previous and simpler decades, simply known as having a job,’” wrote Derek Thompson in The Atlantic. But increasingly, employers haven’t been content with employees who simply had a job. They’ve wanted more and more—for workers to be available at all hours of the day and night, available during vacations and even sick leaves. If “quiet quitting” felt like a real thing, it’s because of the amount of pressure workers these days are under.

“It’s perfectly appropriate that we expect our employees to give their all,” said one executive, threatening that quiet quitters would be first in line if layoffs came. That mindset is telling. Their all. As in nothing left for anything else. Plenty of other executives were lined up to offer similar quotes to outlets like The Wall Street Journal.

”Quiet firing” was the next wave of the trend, serving as a new name for the longstanding practice by many managers of creating such a bad experience for some workers that they can’t stay in the job, even if they’re never officially fired. Kind of a gauzy term for being an abusive boss, no?

And now The Washington Post is trying to make “quiet thriving” happen.

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