Tag: reassigning employees

Beware Of ‘Quiet Cutting’ As an HR Strategy

By Claire Swinarski, Contributing Editor Nov 29, 2023 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Nov 29, 2023

You’ve heard of “quiet quitting”—it’s when employees put in the bare minimum to meet their job requirements without ever aspiring to do more than absolutely necessary. It’s a passive-aggressive way of voicing concerns to an employer while being a drain on your company. You’re not quitting—you’re just barely doing your job. Whether or not “quiet […]

3 Alternatives to Quiet Cutting

By Fernanda Anzek, Insperity Oct 27, 2023 Learning & Development

Updated: Nov 1, 2023

There’s yet another new term for what’s happening in the workplace: “quiet cutting.” This practice sounds similar to “quiet quitting” but is very different. Where quiet quitting is employee disengagement, quiet cutting describes the practice of reassigning an employee to an undesirable role in the hopes the employee will quit. Furthermore, some businesses may choose […]