Remember when everyone in the media freaked out at the concept of quiet quitting? This term came to prominence, of course, around the time of returning to in-person work, yet the idea behind quiet quitting has existed as long as offices have. As many typically younger folks pointed out, quiet quitting is not really doing the bare minimum; it's doing your job exactly as you have been instructed to do it while also placing boundaries between your work life and your personal life. It's a rejection of the idea that we need to go above and beyond to get validated in the workplace.
It turns out many employers are still afraid of this concept and think they have the right to call employees out for quiet quitting despite the fact that there is no evidence of "slacking off." As we said, if there is evidence of anything at all, it's that this employee wasn't doing more than he was instructed to do, and why should he? It's not like he's getting paid more to do extra work.
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