"This is where I would really love to see some of the HR folks. I rarely turn to HR, but I'm turning to you now," he says. "It's a humanity vector that is being laid over work that is totally inappropriate to put on you." He asks: Is there anything we can do about either of these phenomena, quiet quitting or quiet firing? Do you have a preference of which one to fix first?
Odds are you’ve discussed quiet quitting with your colleagues, your friends, your barista, your aunt Barbara… you get the idea. Super-hyped-up conversations about quiet quitting are everywhere these days—but what’s the noise really about? What’s the alleged trend mean or point toward? And if we double-click on quiet quitting, what can we learn about the OS of our workplaces?
In this episode on Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans turn up the volume on this phenomenon and talk about:
- What these conversations tell us about our ways of working and what needs to change
- How to start caring more about outputs and commitments and less about timesheets
- Why the common belief that “good performance = beating expectations” is trash
- How a lack of clarity stokes both the quiet quitting and quit firing fires
- Why we need better workflows around asking workers what they really need
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