The term 'quiet quitting' may have faded from the zeitgeist, but employees still aren't overextending themselves.
, in which he explains, “I’m not going to put in a sixty-hour work week and pull myself up by my bootstraps for a job that does not care about me as a person”, racked up more than 7 million views and 38,000 comments, and has been shared more than 43,000 times.
As companies struggled to fill roles, employees like Hunter Ka’imi felt emboldened to go public on social media as proud quiet quitters , professor of work and employment at Kings College London, “as people re-evaluated their experience of work, their relationship with their employer, and their life in general” during the pandemic.
“It just means doing your job. It's not an exaggerated protest or rhetoric of, like, you should sabotage your employers or come in late every day or steal from your company,” says Ka’imi. “Quiet quitting is if I’m hired to do A, B and C, that’s all I’m doing. It’s a resistance to doing the X, Y and Z that aren’t in your job description, and you’re not getting paid for.”
Ka’imi says he wasn’t just unafraid of his bosses seeing his videos; he hoped they would, even if that made his quiet quitting less“I did not care,” he says. He adds he was proud to approach his boss for time off to appear on the talk show – to explicitly talk about how much he disliked his job. While his bosses might not have been thrilled, they didn’t argue. By being open, Ka’imi hoped, he might be able to bring about some meaningful change, both at his job and writ large.
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