Is Quiet Quitting a Pandemic Related Trend?

Quiet quitting is supposed to be a pandemic related trend where employees are only doing the bare minimum at work. There's this impression that quiet quitting describes the novel phenomenon of people only working to their wage or only doing that, which is required of them. But if you look at the best polling data we have, and it turns out we have great polling data because Gallup has been asking thousands of Americans about their engagement at work for the last 22 years,. And the rate of engagement today is at the exact same level that it was in 2015.