Since 2020, the workplace has developed quite a creative vocabulary.

Quiet Quitting
Employees put in just enough effort to stay employed.

Coffee Badging
Employees showing up just long enough to satisfy attendance policies.

Quiet Cutting
Companies create exciting “take-it-or-leave-it opportunities” that employees soon discover they hate. Nobody gets laid off. It’s all part of the master plan. If the employee decides the new role is a deal-breaker, HR is absolutely devastated by the resignation.

Interesting pattern.

Employees figured out how to keep a paycheck while doing the minimum required.

Companies have developed a way to reduce headcount while avoiding those pesky severance packages.

It’s good to see creative ideas coming from both sides.