It's just the corporation friendly mass media trying to combat calls for better worker treatment/compensation. This is just the next single from the album that brought us "quiet quitting", "the great resignation", "millennials are lazy", etc. It's important for the backers of these media outlets to float these stories out there, lest anyone become sympathetic to workers in light of the facts that minimum wage hasn't kept up with either inflation or productivity, that corporations are engaging in profit inflation, that the fed is intentionally raising rates to wrest back some power from workers, and so on.
Yeah, this "new" trend of "quiet quitting" sounds so silly. People have been behaving like that for a very long time and they've probably always done it.
> Quiet quitters continue to fulfill their primary responsibilities, but they’re less willing to engage in activities known as citizenship behaviors: no more staying late, showing up early, or attending non-mandatory meetings.
Yes, we should all bereave the withering of classical virtues—like sacrificing our health and time with loved ones in order to provide free labor.
Such nerve. Instead of the talking about the downsides of increased surveillance and quantification of worker performance, blame the worker for not going above and beyond. As an employeee in this new landscape, of course you'll save powder for your official requirements, that's OKRs and KPIs working as designed.
Literally one of these on the front page of the NYT today, fully of chirpy anecdotes about people ditching the sweatpants and silly comments about how much our dogs will miss us when we go back to "real work".
Years ago the NYT was great. Now it's so cringy that half the time you wonder if it was hacked / hijacked by TMZ. Sadly, in terms of trust and credibility TMZ wins. It's never anything less or more than it promises to be. If only other media outlets were as honest and had as much integrity.
It is. The NYT Real Estate section is a pretty sickening read for most of the 99% who aren't totally disconnected from reality and don't have a million plus in cash to toss away on a second home.
Every time I've read that section, it felt like product placement for luxury home realtors and commercial property owners.
> that the fed is intentionally raising rates to wrest back some power from workers
The fed is increasing interest rates to keep dollars attractive as a world currency and allows the US governments to keep increase national debt whithout sending interest rate of through the roof.
It may seem counter-intuitive, but letting inflation going out of control would have a major negative impact on demand of debt issued in dollar or, to make it short, US government debt.
The only alternative would be to fund government spending with government revenues. Which means, increase taxes for categories of revenues which amount the most in national revenues.
