The phrase quiet quitting has been on everyone’s lips recently, and involves employees simply staying under the radar, doing no more and no less than their employment contracts require.
Most companies are making plans to help people who are quiet quitting, but you also need to know what the legal implications are, whether you are the employer or the employee.
Quiet quitting is a new term that refers to employee doing the bare minimum when it comes to their work responsibilities, which can potentially negatively affect their employer.
Reasons could be burnout from being overworked, perceiving saying “no” as having healthy workplace boundaries, or it could just be pure laziness, says Tshepiso Rasetlola, associate in employment law at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr.
Whatever the cause, she says, South African employers need to understand the risks attached to quiet quitting and how to manage this phenomenon effectively.
One lingering effect of the pandemic is occupational burnout, which the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially recognised as a medical condition in 2019. Throughout lockdown, many employers saw an increase in productivity and revenue as employees were overly available to work, leaving the boundaries between their work and personal lives blurred.
However, Rasetlola says, as the world returns to some semblance of normality, an increasing number of...
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