Just as I was wondering whether various crises were coming too fast to allow our usual “silly season” of oddball late summer news, an appropriately weird-sounding social trend popped up on social networks and intriguingly struck a nerve.
It’s called “quiet quitting.”
Put simply, it refers to the act of taking your job seriously but not too seriously.
It has generated millions of views on TikTok at a time when workplace studies are showing a surge in young professionals who feel disengaged from jobs that, among other problems, have turned out to demand more than they expected.