"Quiet Quitting" is a phrase used to get people back into the office after COVID and nothing else.
Middle management and executives think employees are remote working as a result of the pandemic, but in reality, the pandemic just accelerated a shift that was on the horizon.
IMO remote working is here to stay, and people can throw around as many new phrases as they want, but it won't change the fact that people are more productive from home.
Edit: Totally agree with @estahn too. Commutes are a total waste of time now that we have technology to work from home. Not to mention how much cars pollute the environment.
What the conversation should look like is: I drive X hours to work each day, so you will have to pay me Y more to get me to do that. Plain and simple.
The fact is that some people are more productive at home, some are not. Stating anything else as "a fact" is an evangelism. And evangelism for working from home is no better than evangelism for working from office.
It's kind of pointless to argue with employers about whether remote work improves productivity; at the end of the day, that's the employers problem to figure out.
Making your employees show up at the office is an additional cost, either directly (better pay) or indirectly (employee satisfaction, retention, etc.) and any company needs to figure out for itself whether on-site working is worth paying the price.
The red herring about productivity is just a cheap attempt of getting workers caught up in a conversation about a "common goal" of increasing productivity that they shouldn't be caring about in the first place.
What the conversation should look like is: I drive X hours to work each day, so you will have to pay me Y more to get me to do that. Plain and simple.
When I first read "Quiet Quitting" I had assumed it must mean something more like doing no work at all during remote work hours; imagine my surprise when I read what it actually means.
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"Quiet Quitting" is a phrase used to get people back into the office after COVID and nothing else.
Middle management and executives think employees are remote working as a result of the pandemic, but in reality, the pandemic just accelerated a shift that was on the horizon.
IMO remote working is here to stay, and people can throw around as many new phrases as they want, but it won't change the fact that people are more productive from home.
Edit: Totally agree with @estahn too. Commutes are a total waste of time now that we have technology to work from home. Not to mention how much cars pollute the environment.
The fact is that some people are more productive at home, some are not. Stating anything else as "a fact" is an evangelism. And evangelism for working from home is no better than evangelism for working from office.
It's kind of pointless to argue with employers about whether remote work improves productivity; at the end of the day, that's the employers problem to figure out.
Making your employees show up at the office is an additional cost, either directly (better pay) or indirectly (employee satisfaction, retention, etc.) and any company needs to figure out for itself whether on-site working is worth paying the price.
The red herring about productivity is just a cheap attempt of getting workers caught up in a conversation about a "common goal" of increasing productivity that they shouldn't be caring about in the first place.
What the conversation should look like is: I drive X hours to work each day, so you will have to pay me Y more to get me to do that. Plain and simple.
By that logic everyone should have got their wages cut during the pandemic as they not had to drive those hours to work anymore.
When I first read "Quiet Quitting" I had assumed it must mean something more like doing no work at all during remote work hours; imagine my surprise when I read what it actually means.