Quiet Quitting Is a Fake Trend
What people are now calling “quiet quitting” was, in previous decades, simply known as “having a job.”
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The hottest labor narrative right now is that everybody’s “.” Starting this summer, popular videos on TikTok with millions of views have used the term to refer to the art of having a job without letting it take over your life. The alliteration crawled out of that social-media petri dish into the mainstream-media landscape. Since August, and have published articles and podcasts about the phenomenon. In the past month, I’ve received countless PR pitches on quiet quitting, many of them referring to the same Gallup study alleging that quiet quitters make up of the U.S. workforce.” that is allegedly and, allegedly, making bosses .
