Quiet Quitting: Is the Criticism Fair?
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Here's your Money Briefing for Friday, August 26th. I'm J.R. Whelan for The Wall Street Journal. Last week, we talked about the concept of quiet quitting and how some workers are looking to reduce burnout and preserve their time outside of work by limiting their engagement with their jobs during work hours.
What is quiet quitting and how do workers define it?
While that idea has gained a lot of support among nine-to-fivers, it's also taken on its fair share of criticism.
We've seen some really prominent people weigh in on this, and the tone varies a little bit, you know, between takes on this. You know, if you want to be successful professionally, you have to go all in, and that's how you'll get where, you know, you want to go.
Coming up, we'll talk with our workplace reporter, Catherine Dill, about the growing debate over quiet quitting. That's after the break.
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There's nothing quiet about quiet quitting. The concept of workers dialing back the go-getter attitude at their jobs has stirred up a firestorm of criticism among people accusing them of coasting or not taking full advantage of the current hot job market. So is that criticism fair? WSJ workplace reporter Catherine Dill has been looking at both sides of the issue, and she joins me now. Hey, Catherine, thanks for being here. My pleasure. So, Catherine, we talked on the show about quiet quitting last week, but it's kind of a broad term. Can you refresh us as to what it actually means?
Interpretations of quiet quitting vary pretty significantly between workers, but broadly it's really rejecting this idea of going above and beyond in their career. So for some folks that can mean really coasting, you know, not putting in hours of overtime, stressing themselves out, trying to meet unrealistic deadlines. For others it can mean, you know, They are meeting expectations, they are doing their job, but they're working 9 to 5, they're not staying late, they're not worried about it in their off hours. And you know, it's important to note here, they don't actually want to quit their jobs, these workers, but they do want to focus their time on the things that they do outside of the office as well.
Okay, but creating boundaries, or at least trying to create boundaries between work and life outside of work, that isn't really new. So why is this concept getting so much attention now?
Certainly, every generation of workers has gone through this, but this has really gained prominence after two years of burnout from work during the pandemic when for lots of folks, work really took over and in many cases subsumed life and now they're trying to establish or re-establish some firmer boundaries you know many of the workers we've seen who've been really vocal in favor of this who said that they identify you know personally as quiet quitters are young and so much of their working lives or all of their working lives in some cases have taken place during the pandemic when we've seen really widespread burnout among employees and this in many cases I think can be seen as a logical response.
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