"Silent quitting" is the term used to tag those who do their job and no more nor less. What we should remember when considering this sentiment [silent quitting] is most jobs are not well designed and thus waste human effort. It as if Frederick Taylor [scientific management] and Henry Ford [mass production] designed a set of railway tracks [time-based jobs] for all future workers. If workers stay on the rail tracks they earn money - if they leave these tracks they risk being on the long-term unemployed lists of their society.
Those who need to earn a living by signing up for a job [in 2023] are often frustrated by the fact that they are on a railway track heading to nowhere. Day in and day out - workers see the waste of time, energy, and human resources brought to light by poor, or incompetent, job design. Most jobs have downtime [slack] and overloads [due to work-arounds]. This is a common flaw inside time-based work systems. And this is the constant flaw, or feature, of modern management systems that the "silent quitting" movement is aware of and is taking direct action to circumvent.
Richard.
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