To search for meaning in the workplace feels increasingly like wasted effort. onesarahjones writes on 'quiet quitting' and how workers are reclaiming their time from the boss
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Telephone operators are practically no more, but work itself has changed little in the five decades since Terkel spoke to Lamb. Work can be dangerous, as the arrival of COVID-19 cast in sharp relief. Work can be what the late David Graeber called a “bullshit job,” lacking purpose. Work can bore and infuriate, but mostly, it alienates. “Barely getting by, it’s all taking and no giving,” as Dolly Parton once put it. Years later, she corrupted her own anthem.
Remote work is in, bringing with it a new flexibility — and endless new debates. Last year, 91 percent of the remote workers surveyed by Gallup said they hoped “their ability to work at home persists after the pandemic.” They cited the absence of a commute and improved work-life balance as their chief reasons for preferring remote work over a full-time return to the office. That freedom has enemies. Workers “can’t stay home in your pajamas all day,” said Mayor Eric Adams in February.
Online, the latter notion is gaining in popularity. “Quiet quitting,” where a worker no longer goes above and beyond for the boss, originated on TikTok and leaked out into the media, where it has infuriated managers. It’s a bad idea, insisted Kevin O’Leary of ABC’s Shark Tank, who told CNBC that workers who “go beyond to try to solve problems for the organization, their teams, their managers, their bosses, those are the ones that succeed in life.
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