Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of quiet quit
In the past few years, quiet quitting has become quite the phenomenon in the workplace. Quiet quitting is not actually quitting your job, but slowly not showing up anymore or going the extra mile.
2024, Dr Ali Fenwick, Red Flags, Green Flags: Modern psychology for everyday drama2 more examples
While this schedule (Table 8.1) may still present itself as ideal and not a reality, entre-employees use quiet quitting; identifying that work will always be present and many components of it can (and should) be saved for the next day.
2023, Sydney D. Richardson, Making the Entrepreneurial Transition, page 113To be clear, quiet quitting does not mean that collaborators are resigning, rather, they are no longer working extra hours, specially without compensation, are not defining themselves by the work they do or the position they hold or subscribing to the hustle-culture mentality which means that they live to work.
2023, Ramesh Behl Rajagopal, Paradigm Shift in Business, page 427
- informalAn act or instance of the ceasing of overachieving at one's workplace.
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