Why Do We Keep Creating So Many Bullshit Work Trends?

Now there’s “Loud Quitting?”

If you’ve been following along since mid-2020, we’ve had various work “trends” that people on cable news and sites like Forbes consistently opine about, including:

• The Shutdown of Offices
• The Great Resignation
• The Great Awakening
• No one wants to work anymore
• Quiet Quitting
• Quiet Hiring
• Quit-Tok’ing
• Loud Quitting (this is new)

Most of these concepts are vaguely backed up by stats and are more the result of people needing to meet deadlines and fill airtime.

Here’s a new newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen:

Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting

Pretty early on in there, she writes this:

My general take, and what I told Molla, is that these terms are a means of making a few pretty bewildering years in the…