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Oh God, Now We’re Discussing “Quiet Hiring” Too?
If you’re following along at home:
The Great Resignation was probably mid-2021 to now. The idea was that people were fleeing their jobs in droves. “No one wants to work anymore.” Everyone had a different theory, rooted in either psychology or market economics or a labor course they took in 1994. Executives didn’t really care, of course — were sales being made? Was product shipping? OK, well the people are replaceable then. Are the robots ready? Not yet? Got it.
Quiet Quitting was people “Acting Their Wage” and not going “above and beyond” when compensation wasn’t adjusted accordingly. Old white conservative men, often born on second base, complained that this was the decline of work ethic.
Ghosting was both recruiters and candidates avoiding and ignoring each other at some point in the process; recruiters claimed they were doing it because of how busy they were (“I’ve been asked to do more with less!”) and candidates were…
