The videos advocating for the trend include ruminations on work-life balance, prioritizing family over doing overtime and untethering one’s career from their identity.
According to survey data from Gallup, U.S. employee engagement is falling, but Gen Z and younger millennials — those born in 1989 and after — reported the lowest engagement during the first quarter at 31 percent.
Jim Harter, chief scientist for Gallup’s workplace and well-being research, told the Post that workers’ descriptions of “quiet quitting” line up with a large group of survey respondents that he considers as “not engaged.” More than half of millennial and Gen Z workers surveyed by Gallup fall into this category, at 54 percent.
The trend has also seen critics on social media, who denounce the move as a cop-out and say it is not a fix for burnout or discontentment at work.
