Move over “great resignation”, there is a new trend in town: “quiet quitting.” While quiet quitting—defined as employees not going above and beyond at work and just meeting the bare minimums of their job description—may not be a new concept, the term has recently garnered excessive attention on social media and has become a rallying cry for frustrated employees. Another term making its rounds on social media, that one should “act your wage,” is a rebranding of the same idea. In essence, social media is now rife with the message that an employee should deliberately avoid over-achieving, and only perform work commensurate with their perception of their rate of pay.
