Appreciate the writing on this topic. In my perception it was the lying and pretending and twisting of words and manipulations - it was exhausting and draining and felt embedded deeply into acceptance of suffering and be professional, meet the numbers, take one for the team, others are getting less and needing to do more too, we all gotta do our share. In addition to those numerous sales people twist and lie and normalized it. People are tired of the lies. Then people think another company will be better, eventually finding the way of life in corporate jobs needs a huge renovation or just collapse and new build - insatiable greed and manipulative lying spoiled what was and an infusion of kindness and love and value of humanity needs to grow again in the working space, a value of making quality products and authentic services for the best of humanity versus creating problems and solutions for money and profit only.
A linkedin post by Bonnie Dilber (we do not know one another, only sharing for context with my writing above)
The "Quiet Quitting" thing is funny to me. I think the real conversation should be around "Quiet Firing" as it's rampant.
You don't receive feedback or praise.
You get raises of 3% or less while others are getting much more.
Your 1:1s are frequently cancelled or shuffled around.
You don't get invited to work on cool projects or stretch opportunities.
You're not kept up-to-date on information that is relevant or critical to your work.
Your manager never talks to you about your career trajectory.
This happens ALL THE TIME.
It works great for companies...eventually you'll either feel so incompetent, isolated, and unappreciated that you'll go find a new job, and they never have to deal with a development plan or offer severance. Or your performance will slip enough due to the lack of support that they'll be able to let you go.
Instead of worrying about "quiet quitting", I'd encourage companies to look at their management practices and identify places where people are being "quiet fired" by poor managers who don't want to do the work to support, train, and coach their teams.
Namaste