"Quiet quitting": just a Gen Z term for poor employee engagement?
It’s easy to discount quiet quitting as social media-inspired melodrama. A way for younger people to put their own stamp on an idea that attentive leaders have understood for many years: people who don’t feel valued or respected, don’t bring their whole selves to work. But the fact that the trend emerged from a generation of true digital natives — workers in their teens through to their late 20s — offers a new insight.