Quiet Quitting…It’s Not Always What It Seems

Megan Benoit Ratcliff
8 min readMar 29, 2023
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The pendulum has swung in recent years away from hustle culture to more of a saunter.

“Quiet quitting” is a misnomer for the phenomenon in question. It doesn’t actually involve quitting, but rather people doing their job without any of the “extra.” Most everyone is aware of “extra” in work settings: coming in early, leaving late, covering for a colleague in a moderately big way, and…

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Megan Benoit Ratcliff

Pediatric psychologist, writer of random things, squirrel watcher. Every day affords us an opportunity to be the best—or worst—versions of who we want to be.