“Quiet quitters” make up at least 50% of the U.S. workforce — probably more, Gallup finds.
The trend toward quiet quitting — the idea spreading virally on social media that millions of people are not going above and beyond at work and just meeting their job description — could get worse. This is a problem because most jobs today require some level of extra effort to collaborate with coworkers and meet customer needs.
U.S. employee engagement took another step backward during the second quarter of 2022, with the proportion of engaged workers remaining at 32% but the proportion of actively disengaged increasing to 18%. The ratio of engaged to actively disengaged employees is now 1.8 to 1, the lowest in almost a decade.
The drop in engagement began in the second half of 2021 and was concurrent with the rise in job resignations. Managers, among others, experienced the greatest drop.
Is Quiet Quitting Real? Jim Harter via @GallupWorkplace https://t.co/wWFaPQp6gU •At least half of the U.S. workforce is quiet quitting
•The workplace, amid the pandemic, got worse for younger workers— Kitty Wooley (@kwooleyy) September 6, 2022