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Employers have been facing 'quiet quitting' for some time, but there's a lesson to learn from its recent attention on social media, and a potential solution, an Australian researcher says.

On platforms such as TikTok, "the slow-it-down movement of quiet quitting can be seen as a rejection of the hustle culture mentality that has ruled the roost for the past decade or so, particularly for Millennials and the emerging young people/Gen Z", says UNSW Business School associate professor Mark Humphery-Jenner.

"Quiet quitters are those no longer going the extra mile and slogging away at work, going above and beyond at [their] job," he says, and this is to be expected when workers have faced "increasing workloads, stress and damage to mental health, but with stagnant or falling wages"...