Americans are refusing to work weekends and are demanding pay raises en masse - emboldened by empowering self-help videos on TikTok and time spent at home during the pandemic.
The revelations, aired in a recent report by The Wall Street Journal, depict a rapidly changing corporate climate where staffers are more actively drawing a line between their work and personal lives.
With the pandemic serving as a catalyst, staffers at respected firms where extreme hours have been the norm are now demanding increased pay when asked to increase their workloads.
Accounts collected from white-collar workers from all age groups illustrate this waning ambition, as well as staffers' reordered priorities over the past three years.
Some firms fed-up of staffers' demands say they've begun outsourcing roles to India and Canada as a result, raising the specter of a jobs crisis should the long-predicted recession be a deep one.
Mary Waisanen, a 43-year-old structural engineering technician at a prominent firm in Virginia Beach, told the Journal of how during that span, she began watching TikTok clips that preached a healthy work-life balance - part of a movement on the platform tabbed 'act your wage.'
Typically, she told the paper, she would concede when asked by her superiors to work overtime to meet deadlines - while making a pretty penny in the process.
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