Picture this: It’s Saturday. There’s a light drizzle outside, which means that the bed you’re lying in is ten times more comfortable than usual. You know you have absolutely nothing to do today. It’s a free day. It’s your day, and you’re going to spend it how you see fit. You turn over to look at your phone on your bedside table hoping to do some in-bed social media scrolling, only to be greeted by not one, not two, but three emails from your boss, all before 9am—on a Saturday. You feel like your weekend is ruined, but it only gets worse when your phone rings and you see the name of your boss pop up. But you decide, “No. It’s the weekend, and the weekend is mine.” Call rejected. Email notifications swiped away. That can all wait until Monday.<\/p>\n
Congratulations, you’re a “quiet quitter”.<\/p>\n
The term “quiet quitting” has been making the rounds these past few months after a video<\/a> on TikTok went viral. In it, the term is defined as not quitting your job but “quitting the idea of going above and beyond”. Ever since it was posted, a heated debate has erupted on what the term actually means. Does it mean workers are slacking off or does it mean they’re placing healthy boundaries?<\/p>\n \n