What is "quiet resignation" and why is it starting to become the new normal? What should managers do?
Quiet resignation doesn't mean you quit your job completely. It's the act of simply doing what's necessary at work to get the job done, get your paycheck, and go home—nothing more, nothing less. As the term becomes more familiar to people, many are realizing that they've quit their jobs for a long time.
These employees aren't ignoring their work responsibilities, but they're abandoning the idea of growing. Emails sent at night will go unanswered until the next day, employees may be less interested in going out for drinks after work and more focused on enriching their personal lives.
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Paola Martinez, vice president of operations at Jobsity, a staffing company, attributes the trend of silent resignation to a few variables, starting with the job insecurity brought on by the COVID-19 in 2020.
During this period, people began to value their time with friends and family and found that the ability to work from home allowed them to reclaim the time they had spent commuting. Then, as remote work became more popular, employees reexamined the importance of work in their lives. These variables may have signaled the beginning of the silent resignation.
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"Quiet resignation means you stop putting in that extra effort," Martinez tells ZDNET. "You just go to work and you just exist. You don't take on any challenges, you don't grow, and you don't seek out opportunities to grow in your job."
In the TikTok video that popularized the term “quiet resignation,” the creator rejects the idea that work should dominate your life.
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It's not up to employees to remove themselves from the desire to quit their jobs. It's up to their employers to create a better work environment to encourage employees to continue to go the extra mile at work.
Information source: zdnet.com
