In recent years, “quiet quitting” has been widely discussed as a harmful work attitude among employees. But “loud quitting” is even worse. What is “loud termination” and why does it hurt companies so much?
When employees only do things according to the rules at work and are not motivated to do their job, this is known as “quiet quitting”. “Silent dismissal” harms the employer and especially the employees, who often suffer from a poor work-life balance. But the so-called “loud quitting” also means a lot of stress for the affected employees – and is even worse for companies than silent dismissal. What does that mean?
Almost 20 percent of employees are “loud quitters”
With loud quitting, employees in the office are just as dissatisfied as with silent quitting. However, instead of just doing the bare minimum, “loud quitters” actively rebel against their superiors and consciously oppose them. In doing so, they actively harm the company – after all, they no longer do their work and – unlike the quiet quitters – disrupt internal processes.
The consulting firm Gallup surveyed around 120,000 employees worldwide and found that almost a fifth (18 percent) of employees will “loudly quit” in 2022. Gallup’s explanation for Loud Quitting is that “at some point, the trust between employees and their employer was seriously violated.” Another reason could be that the employees simply do not fit their position and so difficulties constantly arise.
“Loud quitting” leads to stress and is bad for your health
According to the Gallup poll, 18 percent of employees are loud quitters and another 59 percent are quiet quitters. Only 23 percent of employees like their job and go to the office motivated. “Combined with actively unmotivated employees costs [Loud Quitting] “The global economy is worth $8.8 trillion, or 9 percent of global GDP,” writes Gallup in a blog post about the survey.
But it’s not just the economy that suffers when employees have long since quit. Loud quitting has a serious impact on health: While only 30 percent of satisfied employees feel “very stressed” at work, this figure is around 50 percent of loud quitters. The Gallup survey also found that loud quitters – unlike quiet quitters – usually do not know what they would change in the office to increase their own satisfaction and are particularly unproductive and dissatisfied.
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