Quiet quitting - new language, old problem

Quiet quitting did not make the OED’s ‘word of the year’ shortlist this week but it is a phrase increasingly weaving its way into conversations. Misleadingly, quiet quitting has nothing to do with employees leaving their jobs. Rather, it involves doing the minimum required and never going the “extra mile” – in effect, it’s “working to rule”, rebranded for 2022.