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☆ Half of your employees are 'quiet quitting' and destroying morale. An MBA professor shares the 5 most effective ways to save a team's culture and output.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Brooke Vuckovic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She says that quiet quitting isn't a new phenomenon but it can be very harmful to company culture and morale. One of the best ways to fight quiet quitting is to focus on your "star players" instead, she says. What is new, however, is the not-so-quiet part of quiet quitting: quiet quitters are increasingly announcing their status proudly on social media, thanks largely to a TikTok video on the subject that went viral. Now, it is estimated that quiet quitters make up 50% of the US workforce. Don't "quiet fire"It's tempting to fight fire with fire — or silence, in this case, with withdrawing — but try to resist that.

☆ Is your boss 'quiet firing' you?
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Bonnie Dilber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

So what is quiet firing? Quiet firing is when an employer does the bare minimum to keep their employees: no support, no development, no growth, no rewards. Women, and especially women of color, are particularly susceptible to quiet firing. Lots of workers have been 'quiet fired'When faced with quiet firing, some employees get fed up and exit on their own. A few weeks ago, I wrote a LinkedIn post on quiet firing that quickly went viral.

☆ People are 'quiet quitting,' but their work isn't disappearing. Here's how to handle this tricky situation if you're feeling overworked.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-10 | by ( Shana Lebowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

If you're among the professionals who are still checked in, you may feel obligated to pick up projects, or you may be assigned extra work. If you're feeling the burden of extra work, you should speak up. Joyce said that conversation taught her that your manager doesn't always "know what your workload looks like day to day — they just know you're getting your job done." Jacinta Jiménez, a psychologist and speaker who wrote the book "The Burnout Fix," said the "quiet" in quiet quitting "already suggests that you're not going to communicate while you're stepping back." Some of your colleagues might be willing to take on extra work, especially if it will help their career prospects, as long as you ask them ahead of time.

At least half of all U.S. workers now do the bare minimum of what's required from them at their jobs, according to a new survey from Gallup. Industry watchers and workforce experts have adopted the term "quiet quitting" to describe such workers: people who have chosen to reject the hustle culture that has dominated conversations around work and career for decades. While quiet quitting is sometimes defined as simply enforcing boundaries between work life and personal life, the Gallup survey paints a different picture. "Many quiet quitters fit Gallup’s definition of being 'not engaged' at work — people who do the minimum required and are psychologically detached from their job," Harter wrote. Most employees who are actively disengaged or are not engaged are already looking for other jobs, Harter said.

☆ A Nation of Quitters
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-17 | by ( Andy Kessler | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The unemployment rate was 3.5% in July, the same as in February 2020, but the U.S. has three million fewer workers. Now a McKinsey study suggests that 40% of workers are thinking of quitting their jobs. Everyone has an explanation for the Great Resignation: extended unemployment benefits, eviction moratoriums, baby boomers retiring, work-from-home complacency, anxiety, long Covid. Here’s my theory: Too many got a taste of not working and liked it. Parisians called those with unconventional lifestyles “bohemians.” Now we have unemployed, perpetually plugged-in, dopamine-addled Cyber Bohemians—let’s call them Cy-Bos.

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