Japan's historic work ethic is declining—45% of workers admit they're quiet quitting
Workers said they do the basics required for their jobs for various reasons, but cite wanting a better work-life balance.
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Fuck the term quiet quitting. Call it what it is, doing your job.
Employee burnout is a symptom of a toxic work culture, and "quiet quitting" is a corporate psyop invented to prevent you from noticing it.
Wtf is quiet quitting
It's corporate media term for doing what your job requires, but not giving your time to companies for free
Corpo media licking boots so hard they're literally breathless
Corpos own the media, so they're literally just the trumpets of money hoarders
But why quitting?
Why not
Quiet Cocooning
because if you're not giving your all to the company, are you really working?
No one gives their time to a company for free. That’s volunteering. Getting paid doesn’t mean you’re quiet quitting.
Quiet quitting means doing the absolute minimum not to get fired, showing no initiative or ambition. Employers often expect you to work extra hard and do a bunch of bonus work to try to get promoted or a raise. They believe all this extra work is part of what they’re paying for. But an employee who has quiet quit will do none of that, accept that the job is a dead end job, and just do the minimum to keep from getting fired.
People do give their time to companies for free- it's called working free overtime and tons of people do it (exempt employee pain), which is why employers are not happy with the change. What my comment says is just the short version of what you're saying- you're doing what the job requires and no more
"Businesses can no longer rely solely on the goodwill of employees that they have financially and emotionally abused to the point of class collapse."
People are just doing the bare minimum and that's not ok by the CEO.
I know a neoliberal small business owner who was complaining that his minimum wage workers aren't as invested as he is... I told him that was obvious: they don't benefit from the work they do, they don't own any of the business, and there is always more minimum wage work out there. By his own ideology, why should they care about something that gets them nothing but the bare minimum and has no intrinsic value?
It’s doing the bare minimum, sometimes below the minimum so that they have to fire you. Like how you would act if your boss yelled at you for no reason and you no longer care about your job.
So is the goal to actually get fired? Or to just not go for a promotion? I'm a little confused.
Or is it the guy from office space? "[make a guy]...work just hard enough to not get fired."
Edit: Oh.. I've got a good way to help clarify this...
Another office space reference, but I think this quantifies it well:
So if they ask you to wear 37 pieces of flair, is quiet quitting wearing 35, 36, 37, or 38 pieces of flair?
And anything above that, I'm just going to categorize as not quiet quitting for sake of simplicity. Don't worry about performance percentages, that's not the point here.
The goal is apathy. How can I put in the absolute minimum amount of effort to not get fired with the mindset that if I did get fired it wouldn’t be the end of the world. It generally comes from feeling like you aren’t appreciated or properly compensated from your job.
I think the guy from office space with the “work just hard enough to not get fired” sums it up perfectly
It’s not a new concept as office space made a joke about it in the 90s but it’s a current buzzword and becomes more applicable as the gap between C suites and average employees continues to grow
"Quiet quitting" would be 37 or even 38 in your example. Basically doing what's in your job description, but nothing more. Setting clear work/life boundaries where you aren't accessible to do work for your boss/manager outside of working hours (even if they just want you to answer some emails while you're on vacation or whatever), and not doing stuff that you aren't qualified for/isn't in your job description and that you aren't getting paid extra to do.
People have started refusing to let companies expect more than they're paying for, and it's pissed them off, so they're calling it "quiet quitting."
“[make a guy]…work just hard enough to not get fired.”
This one.
Literally doing your job. And nothing else.
Doing what you're paid to do without doing extra shit.