Quiet Quitting - the new “great resignation”

Virtue signalling spam is also a deflection.

It was simple example about productivity. People avoiding such questions is so typical as to be a meme from a movie.

In fairness HR speak, is to let people know.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2022/0826/1319012-quiet-quitting-the-work-trend-taking-over-tiktok/

They’re doing nothing. Their contracted job and hours is what they’re being employed for and compensated for in accordance with their terms and conditions of employment already. They want praise and recognition from their peers on social media, for not even doing that much.

This is why, apart from LinkedIn, I don’t connect with my team on social media. I don’t think I’d like them 😂

No Tom, it’s called a joke 😒

Its called push back and they are using social media to promote it.

Its a bit people who virtue signal they are working late or in early at every opportunity. Same thing.

Which is awful.

"I'm paid to be here until 5pm, not a minute more."

I'm on the fence about it. Some people like to do everything to a tight schedule or have other commitments that ad hoc work requests play havoc with. They got to run to get a train etc.

My wish to wrap something up is often no more important than their other commitments.

Some people like to schedule things at inconvenient times as a power thing. Meetings unreasonably late or early.

Lots of ways this comes into play.

Yes, it’s easier to be seen in the office and it’s easier to collaborate with work colleagues. I get the distinct impression from some posters here that they imagine they’re being watched over, as if management doesn’t have jobs of their own to do and performance targets of their own to be achieved. They’re as far as sticking it to the man goes for anyone with those ideas, because anyone above that again don’t feel a thing. It’s not hurting them at all.

Of course there are metrics, some people do look at them and pore over them incessantly. I personally don’t, unless I’ve to put a presentation together or I’m doing performance plans something like that, I’ve plenty more to be doing besides. I hated the whole remote working thing btw, much preferred being back in the office because it made that separation and boundaries between work and home life explicit and it didn’t feel like work was an intrusion into my private life.

I say exactly this to people who max out their pension contribution

For me...

A dislike of remote working and or wfh is (in my recent experience) almost always associated with productivity measured by time in seat.

Likewise a dismissive attitude to working for free (going above and beyond) but a complete lack of flexibility with time keeping, working hours otherwise. A one way street as it were.

I can entirely appreciate some dislike remote working. Fair enough each to their own.

As for tracking some places have senior managers walking the floor doing head counts. Or software that tracks when the computer is inactive for x mins. That wouldn't be needed if output and productivity was tracked instead. So it infers they don't.

Construction industry has it’s own set of issues with the exploitation of immigrant workers tbh.

The idea of doing as little as possible has been around for a long time but like conspiracy theorists, the advent of social media amplifies this behaviour. So that explains the how, but not the why.

The real issue is essentially the breakdown in the social contract. Young people were sold the idea that you get an education, get a job, work hard and you'll be rewarded with a nice home and a decent standard of living. Young people are now looking at this thinking no matter how hard I work, what I was sold is completely unattainable, so I'll just accept this and check out of chasing it. It is logical.

The push back against it here is interesting though because if you really believed pushing yourself, going above and beyond was the route to success, hearing that people are dropping out would mean you have less competition. We know however that it isn't the route to success, frequent job switching and ruthless self promotion and networking is a far more successful strategy.

Fair enough about slacktivism. Its not really any significance.

From the article you linked to.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

Lockdown forced people to rapidly learn something that normally takes more experience and longer to realise. Its mostly of no value to you. Which is why they won't reward you for it. I'm not saying its never worth it. Just not very often. Its easy to know if you will be rewarded for that effort by looking back at how you were rewarded the previous times you did it. If you were rewarded then you're more likely to do it again. If not then people won't. Its that simple.