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Quiet Quitting: The New Old Cynicism in a Job That Doesn’t Value You

Quiet Quitting: The New Old Cynicism in a Job That Doesn’t Value You

An essay in defence of the bare minimum

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Laura Kennedy
Aug 22, 2022
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This week, Anne Helen Peterson wrote about ‘Quiet Quitting’ – the choice to fulfil one’s job description at work, but to go absolutely no further –  in her Substack newsletter, Culture Study, in the wake of countless articles online. Peterson compared the phenomenon to “what’s long been known within labour activism as …

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