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    Gen Z didn’t coin ‘quiet quitting’ — Gen X did

    by Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times Aug 30, 2022 4 minutes
    Ron Livingston, David Herman and Ajay Naidu take revenge on their dreaded nemesis, the office fax machine, in a scene from Twentieth Century Fox's "Office Space."

    American business leaders sometimes talk about workforce productivity trends the same strained way you might expect a perfectly healthy hypochondriac to check his body temperature three times a day. (Remember “nobody wants to work anymore”? The U.S. unemployment rate is 3.5%.) The new social media meme about “quiet quitting” — not actually quitting, but doing the bare minimum at your job — is the latest vascular twinge to send CEOs back to the carpet with two fingers to the neck, checking for skipped heartbeats.

    “Quiet quitting clearly entered our work conversation, but here’s why we need to keep it out of our work lives,” famous boss Arianna Huffington, chief executive of Thrive Global, fretted in a LinkedIn essay

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