"Quiet quitting" was concocted in a board room to get people to do their jobs and stop complaining. If you're an employer, you want a team of "quiet quitters" who will do their job and nothing else. It's infinitely easier to manage...
Like I said, it remains to be seen. The results of the loss of free extra labor (via quiet quitting), loss of employer power over wages (via a small replacement birth wage) and loss of profits (via less spending) take time to work their way through the system.
The ultimate goal in my opinion is to allow workers barely enough to make ends meet and for them to not have any lasting wealth. Once they reach retirement age they are someone else's problem then(probably just go off and die somewhere).
>"Quiet quitting" was concocted in a board room to get people to do their jobs and stop complaining.
Im really just using the definition to describe the behavior of workers no longer bothering to over work themselves.
>If you're an employer, you want a team of "quiet quitters" who will do their job and nothing else. It's infinitely easier to manage...
Many employers would disagree and say you are leaving extra value on the table.
There is no loss of power, there is no dynamic shift, there is no loss of profits whatsoever.
Many, many, many more employers would say that "quiet quitting" is great, like 100:1 outnumber those who are upset by it.
I think you got your definitions wrong. The definition im thinking of is skating by on the barest of minimums as to not arouse suspicion. Whether that is doing your job depends on who you ask.
>There is no loss of power, there is no dynamic shift, there is no loss of profits whatsoever.
You are essentially arguing that all the extra effort that employees expended to show that they are "go getters" amounted to no value creation at all. That is absurd just on the face of it.
But lets say you are totally right...then good, its one thing that employees and employers can agree on then. Employees do that absolute bare minimum to not arouse suspicion and employers pay them.
I'm looking forward to the multitude of innovations that employees will come up with to do the absolute bare minimum. Its like the area under a curve. We need to get closer and closer to the bottom of that curve. Thats where my favorite category of American innovation lies. Things such as the mouse jiggler are amateur hour.
We definitely have a situation now where employer pays as shit as possible and workers provides the shittiest effort as possible.