{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Quiet Quitters","description":"Lots of talk about "quiet quitters" with my clients these days. Here's what I'm learning about them and about the companies who aren't having any problems with them.  --------------------- Quiet quitting is all the talk with my corporate seminar clients these days. Many don\u2019t understand it, nor do they understand why someone would do it. My clients could, of course, go through some extra effort to ask their employees about quiet quitting but most won\u2019t because it\u2019s too much work. Which is, ironically, what quiet quitting is all about \u2013 not willing to go the extra mile because of the extra work required and its dubious benefit. It\u2019s easier to believe a popular narrative than actually sleuthing it out, getting some answers, and fixing it. For those unaware, quiet quitting is where employees simply refuse to hustle, refuse to step up to extra challenges or opportunities presented by workplace leaders. The employees have serious doubts if the extra work or hustle will lead to anything beneficial. The phenomenon is largely affiliated with the youngest elements of today\u2019s workplace, roughly those under about 28 years old. For generations the workplace assumed the youth would bear the brunt of the hardest work. Called apprentice to master, pay your dues, whatever, the young ones are supposed to arrive early, stay late, and work hard so that they can get ahead. However, many young employees today \u2013 the quiet quitters \u2013 don\u2019t believe that bargain exists anymore. It appears, they say, the system is about lining the pockets of those at the top with little thought paid to those doing the entry level, grunt work. There is little reason to believe that \u201cpay your dues\u201d will ever pay off, they say. It\u2019s the way of the past, not of today. Here's what I\u2019ve seen recently. The workplaces loyal to a pay your dues model struggle with young employees. They\u2019re workplaces full of quiet quitters. Any suggestion of pay your dues is met with a quiet response of \u201cthis place is probably not for me.\u201d The Covid pandemic, like pandemics before it, took what was eventually coming and put it into our laps right now here today and this workplace attitude is one of them. Others are mental health awareness, virtual meetings, and working from home. They were being discussed, they were on the horizon, but now, post pandemic, they\u2019re right here  in our laps. My clients not experiencing the quiet quitters are early adopters of what they saw was coming. Many employers aren\u2019t aware of it, or they sense it but are unwilling to accept it. What is it? Simply, the workplace model has flipped. In the thriving, non-quiet quitter workplaces, the senior workers \u2013 who were once served by the junior workers \u2013 are now serving the junior workers. They\u2019re asking, \u201cWhat do you need to be successful here and how can I facilitate it.\u201d Pay your dues inverted. The reason? Technology. Parenting trends. Schooling. Lots of things. Fight it if you want but you\u2019ll eventually lose. The traditional workplace has flipped, and it is, like it or not, the future. I\u2019m Cam Marston and I\u2019m just trying to Keep it Real. ","author_name":"Keepin' It Real with Cam Marston","author_url":"https:\/\/cammarston.com\/keepin-it-real-with-cam-marston\/","html":"