Workplace advice: Quiet quitting, the employee behavior pattern that swept through the nation this summer after a viral TikTok video in July, has met its match: quiet firing.
in July, has met its match: quiet firing. Employers, disgusted by employees who consider it justified to do the bare minimum at work, are blessing these employees out the door.In September 2022, 91% of 1,000 managers surveyed reported taking action against quiet quitters or firing them,. One in three of the surveyed managers reported firing quiet quitters; 75% described firing quiet quitters as justifiable.
Although 63% of the managers surveyed stated that employees should work to exceed expectations, 58% admitted at least one of their employees does only the bare minimum. In contrast, 89% of these managers reported they personally went “above and beyond” at work. While 69% the surveyed managers have had formal discussions with their quiet quitter employees, 51% of the managers stated they don’t because they don’t like confrontation. Many of these managers instead responded passive-aggressively, with 31% stating that they made their quiet quitters’ work lives difficult so that they’d leave under their own steam.
Quiet quitting is more than employees setting reasonable boundaries or intentionally putting a hard stop to their work week so they can create work/life balance. Instead, it resembles dry rot that eats away at both its hosts — their employer and the quiet quitters themselves, who withhold their best and avoid stretching their skills and careers.
Managers who pay attention, however, catch on. Unfortunately, a lot of these managers either avoid confrontation or work harder to fix the problem employee than the problem employee does.When you avoid conflict, the problem remains. It’s as if you discovered a bowl of moldy salad and left it on the counter, hoping it might turn into something healthy. The best employees working for managers who avoid dealing with underperforming employees leave because they don’t enjoy picking up the slack.
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