A sceptic’s guide to ‘quiet quitting’
Has Gen Z accidentally reinvented old-school industrial action?
Working It · Mischa Frankl-Duval
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Show Notes
‘Quiet quitting’ is the summer’s hottest workplace trend. It’s spurred thousands of social media posts on TikTok and elsewhere. But what is it exactly? And what if your staff are doing it? FT features writer Emma Jacobs and columnist Pilita Clark join Working It host Isabel Berwick to discuss. Is ‘quiet quitting’ simply a triumph of alliteration over information or does it tell us something useful about workplace attitudes that have come out of the pandemic?
Want more?
Why 'quiet quitting' is nonsense:
https://www.ft.com/content/a09a2ade-4d14-47c2-9cca-599b3c25a33f
A tongue-in-cheek FT guide to ‘quiet quitting’:
https://www.ft.com/content/c5cddb3a-dcf8-4ef8-a1c2-ed866c214d2b
Has work become a four-letter word?
https://www.ft.com/content/93435e72-d05b-4061-b6ff-05b9cbd76f0a
Interviewing amid economic uncertainty:
https://www.ft.com/content/682b3062-8c78-4962-ac23-6fafe2af16f2
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