You have probably heard of quiet quitting. If you haven’t, it’s simple: An employee continues to do their job — there’s no actual quitting involved — but they disengage. They don’t give 110%. They don’t even give 100%. Their heart is no longer in their work (if it ever was). And so, they don’t sit up, they slouch. They do only what they must.
What do we do, then, to address this? Clean house? Fire the quiet quitters and strike fear in all who are left? Install spyware on their work computers that monitors all that they do? Many will offer that kind of advice. They’ll give hard-nosed guidance for how to get 110% from our people — which is both unreasonable and logically impossible. That path is a dead end.
