It's 2023 and there is a new corporate buzzword for how to exploit your employees: "Quiet Hiring" [View all]

First they tried to make "Quiet Quitting" a thing: Basically, if an employee has boundaries and only works as specified in his/her contract and maintains a separation between job and private life, then he/she is "quiet quitting".
Why?
Because an employee who does not do unpaid extra work has basically mentally disconnected himself from the job and has bascially already quit.

Treating your job like it's only a job is bad! BAD EMPLOYEE! BAD!!!
(Insert video if this corporate think-tank lady lamenting how companies are losing talent because employees refuse to go "above and beyond" anymore. She doesn't mention that employees don't get paid to go "above and beyond".)




Now the new buzzword is "Quiet Hiring".

What is it you ask? Hiring people in secrecy?

No.

"Quiet Hiring" is when the company assigns work to you that isn't in your job-description. As a "learning-opportunity" or as a carrot how this MIGHT EVENTUALLY lead to a promotion or a pay-raise in a few years. So the company "hired" somebody to do the job... without actually hiring someone.





And if you wonder where these brand-new buzzwords for old and well-known methods of worker-exploitation come from?

From a corporate think-tank, of course. Professional bullshit-artists.