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to quiet quit

to quiet quit

8.4
To keep your job but do only the work it requires and no extra tasks
  • phrasal verb
  • Slang
translation icon : renunciar en silencio
  • After feeling undervalued, she decided to quiet quit and focused solely on her assigned duties.

Examples

  • Many employees are quiet quitting by only completing their basic tasks without any extra effort.

  • Or you start to see that quiet quitting where it's just a paycheck.

  • Why not just coast in life, quiet quitting, just doing the minimum?

  • So from my perspective, what we're seeing today with quiet quitting, it's nothing new.

  • And when you're young, I think you throw it away with these ideas of like quiet quitting and not engaging.

  • In September, employee motivation experts were sent into OverDrive when a TikTok video on quiet quitting went viral.

  • The trend of quiet quitting has become common as workers aim for better work-life balance.

Antonyms

to engage
676 3.4

To take part in an activity

to overachieve
1 5.3

To do better than people expect and have more success

How Engaged

to quiet quit
  • Slang
8.4
to slack off
  • Informal
3 3.9

Surface Forms

quiet quit infinitive
quiet quit past
quiet quit past participle
quiet quitting present participle
quiet quits third person singular

Morphology

quiet + quit

Although composed of 'quiet' + 'quit', a B1 learner who knows those words would most likely infer 'to resign quietly' rather than 'to stay employed but do the bare minimum'. The current slang sense (disengaging while remaining employed) is a recent, metaphorical shift and not predictable from the literal constituents, so learners would need prior exposure.

Etymology

Quiet quit comes from the image of quiet and quit: instead of loudly leaving a job, someone quietly stops doing extra work while staying employed. That's why it means 'to stay at a job but only do the minimum required'.