What’s The Win-Win Answer To Quiet Quitting?

I received an interesting inquiry from one of my long-time readers, Peter — and I promised a detailed answer. The question piggybacks on my last newsletter’s theme — knowing when quitting is the best decision.

With Peter’s agreement and without revealing the full content of the email for privacy reasons, it goes as follows.

“Hi Lison,

[…]. This newsletter resonates quite deeply with me as I experienced a few daunting moments where I wondered if I should quit […] Do you think ‘quiet quitting’ is quitting? […].

Cheers.”

Challenging question here. Love it! Before answering it, let’s first look more closely at this ‘quiet quitting’.

What is it?

Quiet quitting is a new movement that has recently emerged, first on social platforms, then relayed by larger news media. Its definition varies significantly from one article to another.

One states quiet quitting is “restricting efforts at work and not going above and beyond one’s job duties”, while some label it as “not showing up mentally or emotionally […] doing the bare minimum” not to be fired.

Both definitions are different, but we can see that quiet quitting evolves on the engagement spectrum. And indeed, there are two…