What Does This Mean?
Staying in a job but doing only what the role requires, within set hours, and declining to go above and beyond. Despite the name, nobody leaves; it is a grassroots, informal version of work-to-rule. Usage is debated: supporters frame it as boundary-setting, critics as disengagement.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""She logs off at five sharp now; people call it quiet quitting, she calls it a contract.""
LORE & ORIGIN
The phrase became popular in the United States in 2022, mostly through TikTok after a viral video inspired by a Business Insider article. Wikipedia connects it to the tang ping (lying flat) movement that began on Chinese social media in April 2021 and notes that Gallup found roughly half of the American workforce to be quiet quitters in 2022. No single coiner is documented.
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