The goal of ‘quiet quitting’ — doing exactly what the job requires, no more and no less — is to draw clearer boundaries between work and life in a society that fetishizes endless hustle.
Pretty much everything when it comes to the world of work that today’s high school and university grads are moving into.The general consensus among those who research post-pandemic changes in the workplace seems to be that, yes, companies need to look at the pandemic as an opportunity to modernize how people work.
Quiet quitting’s underlying ambition is to draw clearer boundaries between work and life in a society that fetishizes endless hustle. But there’s more to it than that. Indranil Roy, a partner in the Human Capital practice for Deloitte Consulting, points out that more of the global workforce is working remotely partly because the pandemic continues to threaten health.
Not everyone agrees. Human resources experts point to a human cost to this changing workplace arrangement. Over time, they say, face-to-face interaction is required to facilitate collaboration, build relationships, solve complex challenges and generate ideas.Erica Brescia, chief operating officer at GitHub — an Internet hosting service for software development — agrees. “First, the workplace is a social environment and business in any form is a social phenomenon.
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