Quiet quitting requires working TOGETHER to co-create flourishing workplaces!

Quiet quitting - chronically withdrawing emotionally and psychologically while working and doing only the bare minimum, is not new. The phenomenon is as old as the streets, and certainly cannot be seen as a "mindset problem" of the younger generations. That would be all too easy. The multi-crisis world we live in is causing many more people worldwide to start asking a lot more QUESTIONS about their well-being at work: "my well-being is being harmed, do I still want to expose myself to this kind of "leadership" or this kind of organizational culture?"

It is no accident that people who can do so seek better workplaces more consciously; in some countries, this happens en masse (cf. Great Resignation). With quiet quitting, people stay but disengage; they "psychologically resign," so to speak, often because they experience a significant mismatch between what they consider essential for their well-being and what the workplace offers. Viewed this way, quiet quitting is often a healthy form of self-protection in an unhealthy organizational context.

What then is a "healthy" workplace where people WANT to go to work and stay at work, where people FLOURISH IN CONNECTION, now and in the future?

Where they are appreciated, where they can build on their strengths, and where they can be themselves and continue to develop. In other words, in companies that serve the whole person. This means caring for and helping to develop everyone's human potential, well-being, and complete repertoire of passion, knowledge, creativity, and talent, not as a means to an end that prioritizes shareholder interests but as an end in itself. Within these companies, people flourish and together create the best places to work where engagement and innovation are present "as if by nature." They are places that meet the universal basic human needs: autonomy, competence (development), and connectedness.

In companies that have sustainability as their greater purpose, people are much more likely to engage their whole selves and full potential, building more quality relationships with colleagues, managers, and stakeholders; people are much more engaged and committed to their work, leading to more creativity and more ideas for innovation, which ultimately leads to better performance.

Let's become more positive, flourishing organizations that generate welfare for each, contribute to a healthy, (re)generative social and natural environment, and create conditions so people can develop and truly thrive, increasing well-being TOGETHER.