Quiet Quitting

 I came across this article and I think a lot of us can relate so I'm sharing it here. 

The secret's out. After realizing that hustle culture is a one-way ticket to burnout, mental health issues and premature signs of aging, the hottest trend in the workplace is "quiet quitting."

What is quiet quitting? Hint: It's not the name of John Krasinki's next silent horror movie.

The phrase comes from—where else—kids on TikTok. Here's how user Zaid Khan explains it: "I learned about this term called 'quiet quitting' where you're not outright quitting your job but you're quitting the idea of going above and beyond at work. You're still performing your duties but you're no longer subscribing to the hustle culture mentality that work has to be your life. The reality is, it's not and your worth as a person is not defined by your labor."

The concept is simple enough: Do your job but don't kill yourself. Going "above and beyond" is optional, not mandatory as many of us have been indoctrinated to believe.

And if your job expects superhuman commitment, then you better be compensated like one.

“I realized no matter how much work I put in I’m not going to see the payoff that I’m expecting,” said Khan, a 24-year-old software developer and musician. “Overworking only gets you so far in corporate America. And like a lot of us have experienced in the past few years, mental and physical health really takes a backseat to productivity in a lot of these structured corporate environments.”

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