- “Quiet cracking” is the workplace trend du jour.
- It refers to employees “struggling in silence,” EY’s Chief Wellbeing Officer told BI.
- Have you experienced “quiet cracking” at work? We want to hear from you.
You’ve heard of quiet quitting, but what about quiet cracking?
The latest buzzy workplace trend refers to workers who “show up, they do their job, but they struggle in silence while they do it,” Frank Giampietro, EY Americas’ chief well-being officer, told Business Insider in a recent interview.
“What we’ve seen in the market more recently is that a lot of folks are actually staying with their current employers, but they’re not actually thriving at work,” he said.
Many workers might be sticking it out because hiring is down and job-switching is now worse for wage growth than staying the course, or because of a broader anxiety about the economy.
“A lot of folks actually feel stuck where they are, and it’s not necessarily that they’re making a choice around continuing to be there, but it’s that they don’t have other choices available to them that are better,” Giampietro said.
“Quiet cracking” can affect morale, productivity, and culture and lead to burnout.
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