How to Use quiet quitting in a Sentence

quiet quitting

noun
  • For all the talk of quiet quitting, the complaints about work are in fact very noisy indeed.
    Julia Hobsbawm, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2023
  • And there’s a lot of ‘quiet quitting’ on the job in a way that’s dragging down productivity in the corporate sector.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • In a year still buzzing with quiet quitting, employees at these companies gave more in record fashion.
    Michael Bush, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
  • With quiet quitting, employees are doing the minimum amount of work with the same pay as full-time employees.
    Pat Calhoun, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Here are three effective strategies to re-engage your employees and quit quiet quitting once and for all.
    Karen Turner, Quartz, 19 July 2023
  • Dealing with the rise and grind of it all has fueled a number of workplace trends, with Gen Z purportedly at the helm, from the anti-work movement and lying flat to quiet quitting.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Dracula, though, won’t go down without a fight; this boss will not tolerate quiet quitting.
    Vulture, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Over the past couple of years, there has been a lot of discussion about the future of work—whether people will continue to work remotely, the trend toward quiet quitting and the rise of the gig economy.
    Peter Cappelli, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Lying Flat Another work trend aligned with the American concepts of quiet quitting and acting your wage is called lying flat.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Hence the evolution of the great resignation, quiet quitting and now, despite everything taking place in the workforce, the new crusade for work with purpose.
    Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2023
  • For young workers who once embraced the practice of quiet quitting, the novelty is beginning to wear off, replaced with workplace paranoia.
    Byamber Burton, Fortune, 12 July 2023
  • The below book excerpt outlines five company best practices that can combat quiet quitting and impact the bottom line.
    Jim Clifton and Jim Harter, Quartz, 22 June 2023
  • With the labor-force-participation rate at record lows and many businesses searching for workers, what is the correct response to quiet quitting?
    WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
  • To be clear, quiet quitting doesn’t involve exiting a position.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 1 Sep. 2022
  • If that sounds just a hop, skip, and a jump away from welcoming our robot overlords, consider that restaurants have been struggling to hire skilled labor since before the pandemic brought us quiet quitting.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Trends like quiet quitting and over-employment are popping up due to a systematic shift in workplace culture post-pandemic.
    Pat Calhoun, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Released Thursday, the report cites workplace trends like quiet quitting and the Great Resignation as signals of the damage done to Americans by problems like endless hours, unpaid leave, and chronic stress.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Some employees embraced quiet quitting, or expending minimal effort to get the job done.
    Christina Caron, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Times have changed, and expectations are high — as evidenced by the Great Resignation, quiet quitting and the persistently hopeful idea that work can and should be enjoyable.
    Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Cunningham is talking about one kind of quiet quitting, but the phenomenon defies easy pigeon-holing.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Advertisement Quartz at Work: Move over quiet quitting—we’re now tracking quiet firing.
    Anna Oakes, Quartz, 31 Mar. 2023
  • While quiet quitting is sometimes defined as simply enforcing boundaries between work life and personal life, the Gallup survey paints a different picture.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • In the age of quiet quitting, companies are seeing the impact employee engagement has on productivity and profits.
    Loubna Noureddin, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The combination of the back-to-work blues after Christmas, the aftermath of quiet quitting, and a period of salary stagnation has coalesced to create the perfect storm of employee dissatisfaction.
    Bianca London, Glamour, 13 Jan. 2023
  • There has been no shortage of articles—including at this very publication—on the phenomenon of quiet quitting and, more recently, quiet cutting.
    WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Like Julia Fox and quiet quitting, Adidas Sambas were absolutely everywhere in 2022.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The evidence for quiet quitting—a concept popularized by a viral TikTok video—is considerably more qualitative, to put it kindly.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 1 May 2023
  • So, introducing the antithesis to quiet quitting: quiet thriving.
    Fiona Ward, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2023
  • In the extreme, some argue quiet quitting involves real quitting, as when an employee essentially stops working even before making resigning public or, even more worrisome, when new hires simply fail to report for work.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Women, Elisa argues, may be particularly vulnerable to quiet quitting because of the church’s male hierarchical structure.
    David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022

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