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"Quiet quitting"

"Quiet quitting" means doing only what your job description requires and declining to take on extra work, without actually resigning.

Say this instead: doing the bare minimum

How "Quiet quitting" shows up at work

The phrase made it into every HR newsletter in 2022. Managers use it to describe disengagement. Employees use it to describe having a boundary. Both are partly right.

Buzzword

There's a lot of quiet quitting on that team and leadership hasn't addressed it.

Plain English

People on that team are doing the bare minimum and leadership hasn't addressed it.

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