Half of Office Workers Choose 'Quiet Resignation' When Office Atmosphere Feels Strange...

"Currently Dissatisfied with Company Salary and Benefits"

One out of every two office workers is found to be in a state of 'quiet quitting.'

On the 26th, HR tech company Incruit conducted a survey on the perception of 'quiet quitting' among 1,097 office workers, and 51.7% of all respondents answered that they are currently in a state of 'quiet quitting.' 'Quiet quitting' refers to a state where employees do not leave their jobs but only handle the minimum amount of work and have no intention to contribute to the company. 'Quiet quitting' emerged as an extension of dissatisfaction with working conditions, organizational culture, and compensation among millennial workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the large-scale resignation phenomenon known as the 'big quit.'

By years of service, those with 8 to 10 years of experience had the highest response rate at 57.4%, followed by ▲5 to 7 years (56.0%) ▲17 to 19 years (54.7%). When asked the reasons for being in a state of 'quiet quitting,' the most common response was 'dissatisfaction with the current company's salary and welfare' (32.6%). This was followed by ▲lack of enthusiasm for working at the company itself (29.8%) ▲preparing to change jobs (20.5%). Regarding colleagues who are 'quiet quitting,' 65.8% of all respondents answered positively.

Regarding the recent trend opposite to 'quiet quitting,' called 'loud quitting,' where mainly Generation Z publicly shares the process of dismissal and resignation on social networking services (SNS), 44.3% of respondents said 'it is okay if the company's name is not disclosed,' and 31.4% said 'it does not matter.' Respondents who perceive it negatively regardless of whether the company name is disclosed accounted for 24.2%.

Meanwhile, the most common type of actual resignation was the 'planned resignation type' (56.8%), where employees prepare for job changes or starting a business without anyone knowing before resigning. This was followed by ▲'whisper resignation type' (27.6%), where employees only tell close colleagues before resigning ▲'impulsive resignation type' (11.0%), where employees suddenly resign impulsively while acting as usual ▲'loud resignation type' (3.6%), where employees talk about wanting to resign here and there before actually resigning.