Dr. Kurt Love

Yeah, I think this is the very silent killer in a workplace, quiet cracking.

So I think a lot of us are very familiar with quiet quitting.

Quiet quitting is a very, it's a voluntary thing.

It's somebody deciding that this isn't the right fit for them anymore, but they're not necessarily going to make a big to-do about it.

They're just looking for other avenues.

So when the time comes, they find something they like, they leave, right?

And it's not with any flag waving.

It's not with any bullhorns, right?

It's just simply,

Gotta go.

But what we have learned is that this quite quitting really is led much earlier with something called quite cracking.

Quite cracking is, it's not voluntary, it's involuntary.

It's something that's happening under the surface.

And it's oftentimes happening with high performers, which is even really more risky when we think about it, because these are the people who we really rely on for our projects and our teams to do well.

Quiet cracking is that invisible experience where people are pushing really hard to do well, but they're hitting their limits and they're hitting their limits so often that it's breaking them down.

And that was sort of the grind that I was talking about before.

And I think many of us can relate to that.

Quiet cracking is eventually going to compound.

It's eventually going to

become some sort of response, whether it's quite quitting, whether it's going to HR for something, who knows, right?