Who Are Quiet Quitters? (4)
One reason for quiet quitting is pandemic-induced stress and burnout. Some workers slack off because they think they can get a better-paying job in this tight labor market. Many industries are experiencing a shortage of workers, and so employees have the upper hand.
People are less inclined to tolerate toxic bosses these days. Instead of soldiering on as quiet quitters, many workers are looking for-and finding-other ways to make a living without being in a stressful environment.
For a long time, you didn’t leave a job unless you had another one lined up. That’s what everyone was told and what people did. But that’s changed. Now, people are confident that when they want to work somewhere else, something will be available.
What is A&A doing to prevent employees form jumping ship?
Well, one of the biggest challenges we face is that when an employee risk of what we call turnover contagion is particularly acute right now. It’s become common for employees to announce news of their moves on social media. If you do nothing, you’re going to lose people you want to keep. So we’ve started doing reverse exit interviews on a trial basis.
You mean you talk to remaining employees after one of their coworkers quits? Is this something new?
Yes, it is. But we’re guided by our HR consultancy, and we’ll be analyzing the findings together with them.
