Meaning of quiet quit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To cease overachieving at one's workplace to focus on one's personal life; to do only what is reasonably or contractually required.
   ambitransitive, error-lua-exec, idiomatic
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see quiet, quit.

Examples

“Near-synonym: work to rule”

“He said that he is going to quiet quit his job because he wants to focus on his family.”

“The TikToker [@zkchillin] narrates in the video: “I recently learned about this term called quiet quitting, where you’re not outright quitting your job but you’re quitting the idea of going above and beyond.[…]””

“Emma O'Brien, 31, from London quiet quit from her job as a personal assistant within the retail sector, after also being turned down for a pay rise.”

“Instead of managers worrying about quiet quitting, I think they should take away one lesson: Don't rely so heavily on employees going above and beyond their job description.”

“Part of what has enabled workers to participate in quiet quitting and the Great Resignation is the rare amount of leverage they've had amid a persisting labor shortage, but “resenteeism” signals that people are finding themselves in a tougher spot with the cost of living and a fear of layoffs.”

“Under these circumstances, an increasing number of university lecturers in Chinese universities seem to experience job burnout and experience QQ. There is an urgent need to examine and represent the formation and development of quiet-quitting intentions among Chinese university lecturers.”

““I can’t make another dinner,” I told my mother, my sister, my best friend. “I’m quiet quitting dinner,” I told people I barely knew. “You’re on your own for dinner tonight,” I told my wife and kids.”

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