How ‘Quiet Quitting’ Is Changing the Workplace
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Here's your Money Briefing for Monday, August 15th. I'm J.R. Whelan for The Wall Street Journal. Dealing with work-induced stress isn't new, but the pandemic has led many people to re-examine their careers and reset the balance between the number of hours they spend on the job and life outside of it. For a lot of us, that's easier said than done, but many younger workers are actually doing something about it.
Gen Z and younger workers are reporting that they feel less like their work has purpose. And without sort of that connection between what you're doing and why it matters, it might be a little bit easier to dial back your own engagement.
Coming up, we'll talk with our workplace reporter, Lindsay Ellis, about the concept of quiet quitting, how a popular topic on TikTok could change the workplace. That's after the break.
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Some workers thrive on being go-getters in the office, taking on extra tasks, trying to get ahead, and often working well past the traditional end of the workday to do it. But a new generation of workers is just saying no and taking the opposite path. It's called quiet quitting, and it's an idea that's been gaining traction online. WSJ Workplace reporter Lindsay Ellis joins us with more. Hey, Lindsay, thank you for being with us.
Thanks for having me.
So, Lindsay, first of all, what do we mean by quiet quitting?
So this is what some young professionals are referring to when they say they're just not going to think too hard about their jobs, especially when they're off the clock. These people are rejecting the idea of going above and beyond in their careers and They're calling this lesser enthusiasm a form of quitting as sort of a backlash to what maybe earlier workers would have dubbed the hustle culture, this always on, constantly climbing workplace attitude. So the quiet quitters, they don't actually want to quit their job and get off the company payroll, but they really want to focus their time on the things that they do outside of the office, be it their hobbies or their family or even side hustles.
One man on TikTok, Zaid Khan, he put it really well.
You're no longer subscribing to the hustle culture mentality that work has to be your life. The reality is it's not and your worth as a person is not defined by your labor.
So Lindsay, this topic has become popular on social media, but how much of a trend in the workplace has it actually become?
So the term quiet quitting has racked up millions of views on TikTok. There are a number of videos where people are expressing how it applies to them, how they perceive this shift in their own work. But if you look a little bit more broadly, Gallup has some interesting numbers on U.S. employee engagement overall. For two consecutive years, employee engagement has fallen in the U.S. workforce, but Gen Z and younger millennials, the people who were born in 1989 and after, they've reported the lowest engagement of all during the first quarter of 2022, coming in at 31%.
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