Is 'soft quitting' to be taken seriously? Or is it just another hash-taggable work trend?

The great disengagement — an overhype or an opportunity
Is 'soft quitting' to be taken seriously? Or is it just another hash-taggable work trend?

Soft quitting is defined as choosing to disengage emotionally from your work without necessarily reducing your output. It’s the quality of your work that suffers as you lose your enthusiasm for it.

It is no coincidence that both quiet and soft quitting took off as a trend, post-covid.

There are huge links, in my opinion, to workplace behaviours and a human reaction to the quick return to the hustle-bustle way of life after the trauma of a global health pandemic on one hand, but on the other hand, the opportunity for a calmer way of life during it.

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