How Are You Handling "Quiet Quitting"?

By now, most business owners — whether they realize it or not — have encountered “quiet quitting”. But how are they handling it?

Quiet quitting is basically actively disengagement from the duties of the job, without actually quitting. It’s people who do the minimum required and are psychologically detached from their job. According to Gallup, quiet quitters make up at 50% of the American workforce.

It’s recognized that the younger workers — those under 35 — have had a rougher go of it, particularly since the pandemic. But part of that is due to the disengagement of people higher up the ladder. The disengagement of managers causes a trickle-down effect to the younger workers. “Managers need to create accountability for individual performance, team collaboration and customer value -- and employees must see how their work contributes to the organization's larger purpose.”

The Harvard Business Review has found that “data indicates that quiet quitting is usually less about an employee’s willingness to work harder and more creatively, and more about a manager’s ability to build a relationship with their employees where they are not counting the minutes until quitting time.”

Do you have quiet quitters? The answer’s probably going to be yes. What do you intend to do about them? It may be time to look inwards for an answer…

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