Quiet Quitting May Not Be Real, But It’s Still Trending

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🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Workers across the country keep talking about “quiet quitting” – the idea that employees should fulfill their job duties in the time they are paid to work – nothing more or less. It sounds logical, but quiet quitting has stirred a lot of feelings and debate this summer. Workplace experts can’t seem to agree on what it is or if it’s even real. In a recent article, Derek Thompson of The Atlantic argues that quiet quitting is not new or novel. Meanwhile, Boston Globe writer Beth Teitell says quiet quitting should extend to other facets of life beyond jobs. We’ll dive into the concept of quiet quitting and what it means to you. Guests: Mr. Derek Thompson, staff writer and the author of the Work in Progress newsletter, The Atlantic Magazine; author of the recent article, "Quiet Quitting Is a Fake Trend" Beth Teitell, staff writer, The Boston Globe; author of the recent article, "Our obsession with ‘quiet quitting’ doesn’t seem to be going away" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.8	What is quiet quitting?
0:53.4	For me, it's one of those terms that seems to have erupted
0:55.9	out of the collective unconscious and become a way to describe an approach to work that's less hustle,
1:01.0	more balance. What's more interesting than the concept itself is how much currency it seems to have.
1:07.0	Quote unquote, quiet quitting has struck a chord with managers for sure and also with a chunk of workers.
1:12.8	But has anything actually changed in people's relationship to their jobs?
1:16.8	Or is it just more that we need some kind of language to describe newfound pandemic feelings?
1:21.7	We'll talk with an all-star panel about work right now, what's changed, and what really hasn't.
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