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Are Corporate Buzzwords Changing the Way We Think About Work? Subscribe To The Hustle: Your -Minute Business & Tech News Brief Sara Friedman Sara Friedman Published: July Quiet quitting quiet hiring Bare Minimum Monday the Great Resignation… whether you’re scrolling through social media or brewing coffee in the office lunchroom corporate buzzwords seem nearly unavoidable. Corporate buzzwords But why are we suddenly naming every workplace phenomenon? And more importantly is it changing the way we feel about our jobs? To find out we surveyed + full-time employees on the proliferation of trending terms about work and how those words did — or did not — affect their decision-making or outlooks.
Corporate buzzwords The majority of respondents had heard of “quiet Email Marketing List quitting” ( ) followed by “act your wage” ( ) “Great Resignation” ( ) and “Bare Minimum Monday” ( ). Other surveyed terms included "quiet hiring " "career cushioning " and "rage applying." As for where professionals hear these terms: reported that these buzzwords are being used in their office. Speaking about work in a new way makes sense after the covid pandemic where most professionals experienced drastic changes to where how and when they worked. Long commutes turned into working from bed and constant work travel shifted to a never-ending stream of Zoom meetings. So it’s logical that in all of that flux some took a step back from their careers to begin asking deeper questions about corporate America.
These trends were very likely there before but I think the and brought things to the surface that we didn’t pay attention to or have the opportunity to talk about ” says Susanna Gallani an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Gallani says that the pandemic gave workers the time they needed to reflect on all aspects of their careers from what drives them to go to work each day to what they want out of the relationships with their employers. One survey respondent agreed saying they’d participated in the phenomenon dubbed the Great Resignation after the pandemic’s onset: “I decided to resign from my job during the pandemic. I lost people to covid and it made me want to move closer to my remaining family.” Of those surveyed said workplace terms have influenced their actions or decisions in the workplace.
Corporate buzzwords The majority of respondents had heard of “quiet Email Marketing List quitting” ( ) followed by “act your wage” ( ) “Great Resignation” ( ) and “Bare Minimum Monday” ( ). Other surveyed terms included "quiet hiring " "career cushioning " and "rage applying." As for where professionals hear these terms: reported that these buzzwords are being used in their office. Speaking about work in a new way makes sense after the covid pandemic where most professionals experienced drastic changes to where how and when they worked. Long commutes turned into working from bed and constant work travel shifted to a never-ending stream of Zoom meetings. So it’s logical that in all of that flux some took a step back from their careers to begin asking deeper questions about corporate America.
These trends were very likely there before but I think the and brought things to the surface that we didn’t pay attention to or have the opportunity to talk about ” says Susanna Gallani an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Gallani says that the pandemic gave workers the time they needed to reflect on all aspects of their careers from what drives them to go to work each day to what they want out of the relationships with their employers. One survey respondent agreed saying they’d participated in the phenomenon dubbed the Great Resignation after the pandemic’s onset: “I decided to resign from my job during the pandemic. I lost people to covid and it made me want to move closer to my remaining family.” Of those surveyed said workplace terms have influenced their actions or decisions in the workplace.