Lazy Girl Job
A type of role — coined and popularised by TikTok creator Gabrielle Judge in spring 2023 — that is fully remote, low-stakes, easy to perform, pays well enough to live on, and ends cleanly at the end of the workday.
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A type of role — coined and popularised by TikTok creator Gabrielle Judge in spring 2023 — that is fully remote, low-stakes, easy to perform, pays well enough to live on, and ends cleanly at the end of the workday. Lazy girl jobs are typically mid-level individual-contributor positions in operations, customer success, marketing or admin: meaningful enough to take pride in, but with no on-call, no team to manage and no expectation of after-hours work. The framing is explicitly post-girlboss — Judge's pitch is that women shouldn't have to grind themselves into burnout to be considered serious — and went viral in late 2023 with millions of "what's your lazy girl job?" replies.
My lazy girl job pays £55k, I'm logged off by 4pm, and I've never once been asked to "circle back" on a weekend.
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- Corporate Girlie65%
A TikTok aesthetic and identity that emerged around 2022–23, in which young women — usually millennials and older Gen-Z — lean into office culture as a positive lifestyle: tailored blazers, oat-milk lattes, perfectly colour-coded Outlook calendars, productivity systems, and earnest "day in my life as a corporate girlie" vlogs. The trend is partly nostalgic (echoes of 1990s working-women movies), partly aspirational (a generation locked out of housing finding stability in the structure of office life), and partly ironic. Corporate girlie is generally read as the cheerful, pro-work counterpoint to lazy girl job and snail girl era, even though many creators play in both worlds.
- Snail Girl Era63%
A slow-living aesthetic that took off on TikTok in late 2023, in which young women publicly slow everything down — long morning routines, cooking from scratch, working part-time, going to bed early — as an explicit rejection of hustle culture and the "girlboss" archetype that preceded it. The phrase was popularised by creator Sienna Ludbey, who framed her own pivot away from a high-pressure career as entering her "snail girl era". It overlaps with cottagecore, soft-life and that-girl trends, but the snail-girl framing is more specifically anti-work: the slowness is the point, and the snail emoji often signs the posts.
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A self-care work hack popularised on TikTok in 2023 by creator Marisa Jo Mayes, in which the first day of the working week is deliberately spent doing only the minimum required tasks — no aggressive to-do list, no back-to-back meetings, no "starting the week strong". The idea is to ease into work gradually as an antidote to Sunday-night anxiety and burnout culture, then ramp up effort across Tuesday–Thursday. Bare Minimum Monday sits alongside quiet quitting and lazy girl jobs as part of a broader Gen-Z rejection of always-on productivity, and is most often discussed by remote and knowledge workers with control over their own calendars.
- Lying Flat59%
The English-language adoption of China's "tang ping" movement: a deliberate decision to opt out of hustle culture by doing only what's necessary to live, refusing extra hours, declining promotions and reducing material ambitions. Picked up by Western journalists and TikTok creators from 2021 onward, "lying flat" became a useful umbrella term for a cluster of related stances — quiet quitting, the lazy girl job, snail girl era — that all reject the assumption that career advancement should be life's organising principle. Some commentators frame lying flat as a soft labour protest, others as a personal mental-health strategy; in practice both readings overlap.