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Sarah O’Connor

Financial Times

A TikTok video this year about “quiet quitting” has sent “employee motivation experts into overdrive”, says Sarah O’Connor. According to Gallup, about half of Americans are “quiet quitters”, defined as people who are “not going above and beyond at work and just meeting their job description”. I don’t think it’s a problem at all. Firstly, it is “neither new nor a trend”. The Gallup survey also found that just under a third of workers were

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