Employees Stop Going Above & Beyond at Work and Join "Quiet Quitting" Trend — But Bosses Aren't Happy

Most people have to work to make a living. However, not every job is as easy to put down at the end of the day. Some expect a lot of you, sometimes even more than you expected when you started the job. Enter a new concept that's gaining attention — quiet quitting.

The idea behind quiet quitting is simple. When you go to work, you do exactly what your job is and when you go home, you step away from the stress. In other words, the idea is to work within your hours and not run yourself thin. The term doesn't actually refer to quitting your job in the traditional way. The concept here is that you do keep working but you don't bend over backwards to do more than expected every single day or bring that stress home.

The concept behind quiet quitting is simple — there's more to life as a whole than the responsibilities you have at your job. This means that you should take the time to enjoy other aspects of your life without letting work consume everything. This can mean directly working additional hours or just allowing work to wear you down to the point that you don't have the energy for anything else.

So, how does this look practically? What are some examples of what quiet quitting might actually look like in the workplace? Like we said before, it's important to iterate that this isn't quitting in a literal sense. Maybe employees stop taking work calls after hours or not taking work projects to work on at home. Generally, the idea is to keep your job but set some strong boundaries about availability.

The term "quiet quitting" is unpopular for a few reasons. Obviously, there are those who would rather capitalize off of their employees' work over anything else. As some people are ready to point out, though, it's not really a concept you'd find outside of a society that puts such an emphasis on work. Put it at its basics — working your allotted hours before clocking out isn't exactly "quitting" in any sense. It shouldn't even be out of the norm!