: Opinion: Quiet Quitting & how to deal with it #IndiaNEWS #Guest Post Tanima Dhawan, HR Director at Zoo Media shares the impact of quiet quitting on a companys work culture and how the management

Opinion: Quiet Quitting & how to deal with it #IndiaNEWS #Guest Post
Tanima Dhawan, HR Director at Zoo Media shares the impact of quiet quitting on a companys work culture and how the management can deal with it in a constructive manner.

The trend towards quiet quitting has captured the imagination of a lot of working people off-late. It means, employees are “checking-out�? from work and don’t necessarily see work as the only central focal point of their life. Instead, they look at the job and the monetary benefits attached to it as a means to make ends meet and not the primary purpose of life that requires that “extra�? investment of time. Quiet quitters believe in doing no more than their job demands and setting clear work-life boundaries.

Quiet quitting as a phenomenon started seeing more traction in the latter half of 2020. A true illustration of pandemic-induced effects, the WFH or remote working culture is a great contributor to this new trend. Almost two years of work from home or hybrid working has changed the work culture fundamentally, for good or for worse. This followed by the phase of the Great Resignation just allowed people to re-evaluate their lives and workplace options, reimagine alternative ways of doing work and rethink what they wanted from life!

The pandemic also led to the emergence of a new will of the world WFH, something that was totally unimaginable pre-pandemic. This accelerated remote working culture and these new working systems have definitely fuelled the rise of quiet quitting culture in more ways than one. Even though convenient and cost-effective in many ways, WFH often results in blurred boundaries between ‘work from home’ and ‘work for home’ and therefore the risk of employee burnout. When people work in disassociated work spaces confined to the walls of their homes, relying on self-motivation, self-discipline and concentration, it becomes really difficult to live & breathe such a life, day in and out.

The office environment offers lots of informal and casual collaboration opportunities that are hard to replicate at home. Only when employees enthusiastically involve themselves in their work and workplace, organizations are able to manage/build on important perspectives of workplace culture. More importantly, this enables organizations to know their employees as individuals their current life situation, personal ambitions and goals, the strengths they aspire to acquire and the weaknesses they wish to overcome.

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Since there is a huge demand for hybrid working and the WFH culture will only grow, companies need to find innovative ways of interacting with their employees, engaging and motivating them differently and most importantly, communicating with them more effectively in more intentional ways.