Quiet quitting, or the practice of employees’ doing just enough to get by without being fired, seemed to many American workers like a brilliant way to capitalize on a historically tight labor market. Rather than going the extra mile to receive a promotion or a raise, quiet quitters have been satisfied with coasting along and collecting a paycheck.
Employees Wise to Exercise Caution
It shouldn’t be a surprise that this seemingly too-good-to-be-true employment situation won’t be available to workers forever. Indeed, as the economy is expected to begin slowing in the near future and many companies have already announced labor cutbacks, doing the bare minimum at work is looking like an increasingly precarious strategy.
