A staggering 90% of employees in the UK are 'quiet quitting'

I was on a savings goal to get a deposit to buy a house to be able to raise my family. I worked hard for the past few years. Then the house prices went out of reach, I got hit with a massive tax bill, school and daycare fees skyrocketing, power prices going higher, rent increasing 10%-15% until now there's barely anything left. I've given up. I don't work with any motivation now I just do the bare minimum. What's the point in working hard when government and landlords take all your money?

'Quiet quitting' means not going beyond that what you are paid for. No overachieving, no engagement with your work beyond what is needed to do that work.

Regardless of the societal causes (and those are interesting), this sounds like a solid defence mechanism to stave off burnout and the growing sense of dread when your work feels like it adds only minimal value to society.

10% not being engaged does equal 90% quiet quitting. Seems like clickbait.

People have no incentive to go above and beyond. It's been made abundantly clear that employers do not care about employees. Elon just got paid $56,000,000,000, and they simultaneously laid off 10,000 employees. Every time you look up, another company is laying off workers. Workers are being replace by AI every day. Many jobs are pointless, and don't really do anything but feed an empty capitalist system. Inflation has affected everyone but the 1%. Houses are unaffordable. People are just mean in general. Why would anyone want to work?

The article's headline is way overblown. The linked Gallup study states:

> In 2023, global employee engagement stagnated, and overall employee wellbeing declined. While both measures are at or near record highs, their lack of improvement is notable, as they follow multiple years of steady gains.

As a british person, I can confidently say: What the fuck did you expect? We're in a pretty shitty economic climate, and we had no competent government for about 8 years.

Nobody can afford to buy a house, those that have a mortgage have just had a stonking rise in mortgage costs, or about to have one.

None of that is going to change anytime soon.

The NHS is utterly fucked, and the police cannot investigate basic crimes

The courts are about to entirely grind to a halt, and we don't have enough space to put newly convicted prisoners.

We have no local government anymore, because all of the funding is going into either private childcare for children with significant needs (Massive brewing scandal), or old people in care homes.

Energy prices have spiked, and we are currently being fucked by inflation, so money doesn't go very far, and the wage rises didn't return purchasing power.

Even though the present government is about to be utterly shat on, the new government isn't looking that good.

TLDR: shits expensive and broken. We are not very happy.

Update: Its not quiet quitting, its acting our fucking wage and fulfilling our contractual duties.

Is “quiet quitting” still just another term for “doing your job”?