Doing only the work explicitly required by your job description — no unpaid overtime, no extra projects.
This gives quite a few results for "quiet quitting", and one in German too! https://bsky.app/search?q=%22quiet+quitting%22
This sounds more like working to rule to me. Never heard of 'quiet quitting'. And I am English as well. Although I don't have tiktok so maybe not English enough?
Doing only the work explicitly required by your job description — no unpaid overtime, no extra projects. Technically still employed, mentally checked out. The 2022 Gen Z labor mantra that gave HR departments a quiet panic. Productive in moderation; corrosive in extremes.
quiet quitting means Doing only the work explicitly required by your job description — no unpaid overtime, no extra projects. It's mostly used in workplace and corporate conversation. It's casual and generally safe with friends and online. It's standard online vocabulary; nothing inherently concerning about hearing it.
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Gradually making an employee's job miserable — no promotion, no growth, no feedback, stripped-down projects — until they quit on their own. Legally safer for the company than firing; emotionally more damaging for the worker. 2023 saw the term become an HR bogeyman.
The deliberately positive flip of quiet quitting, coined in a 2022 Washington Post piece by psychotherapist Lesley Alderman: instead of mentally checking out of a job you can't or won't leave, you make small, intentional adjustments — building a friendship with a colleague, taking real breaks, picking up a more interesting side project, redecorating your desk — that quietly improve your day-to-day experience of work. Quiet thriving is framed as an individual coping strategy rather than a structural fix, and is often promoted by HR and wellbeing teams precisely because it asks the employee, not the employer, to do the work of feeling better.
Resigning with a dramatic, public flourish — LinkedIn post, group-email farewell, a TikTok explaining why. Opposite of quiet quitting. "He loud quit with a five-slide deck critiquing the company. Bold." Most loud-quitters regret the deck within 12 months; the screenshots live forever.
Ah time to relax with a fashion podca- "The whole congress is engaged in quiet quitting!" www.articlesofinterest.co/podcast/epis...
"I'm not resigning, I'm quiet quitting — 9 to 5, then I'm unreachable."
quiet quitting means Doing only the work explicitly required by your job description — no unpaid overtime, no extra projects. It's mostly used in workplace and corporate conversation. It's casual and generally safe with friends and online. It's standard online vocabulary; nothing inherently concerning about hearing it.
"quiet quitting" is slang. It means: Doing only the work explicitly required by your job description — no unpaid overtime, no extra projects. Register: casual. Use it in: casual conversation and online posts. Avoid in: formal writing and professional emails.
“This gives quite a few results for "quiet quitting", and one in German too! https://bsky.app/search?q=%22quiet+quitting%22”
“This sounds more like working to rule to me. Never heard of 'quiet quitting'. And I am English as well. Although I don't have tiktok so maybe not English enough?”
“Ah time to relax with a fashion podca- "The whole congress is engaged in quiet quitting!" www.articlesofinterest.co/podcast/epis...”
“The phrase "quiet quitting", meaning doing only what one's job demands and nothing more, which became popular in the United States in 2022, was thought to be inspired by the tang ping movement.”
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An act or instance of the ceasing of overachieving at one's workplace.
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