"Quiet thriving" is a workplace strategy that's helping people take more control of their work. She and another expert agreed that, by contrast, quiet quitting can disempower certain workers. She believes "quiet quitting is disempowering" and that workers instead need a resilient mindset to ride out a tough economy. Given the many economic challenges workers are facing, we may hear much more about "quiet thriving" in the future. And for those people, she added, "quiet thriving" is a method of asking, "How can I really own my job instead of feeling owned by it?"

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