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QUIET QUITTING FOR BETTER WORK PRACTICES

 

QUIET QUITTING –BETTER WORK PRACTICES

Source: Hindu

 

CONTEXT

The phrase has been gaining currency in the recent scenario, the young workers are its advocates, they are taking time out of work and doing something outside of the office.

 

WHY OPTING FOR QUIET QUITTING

  • Over a quarter of the respondents were not confident they would retire comfortably.
  • Amid this financial unease, many of them are changing their working pattern, opting for a second part or full-time paying job in addition to their primary job.

GO SLOW MOVEMENT

  • The Go Slow idea goes back to the late nineteenth century when the organized dock workers of Glasgow, Scotland demanded a 10% hike in wages
  • Their demand was refused by the owners, making the workers go on strike
  • To counter the budding movement, dock owners employed agricultural labourers to work for them. The dockers acknowledge defeat and returned to work under the old wage.
  • The dockers observed their replacement closely and found them to be inefficient.
  • McHugh, founder of the National Union of Dock Labourers that was, heading the protest for higher wages, the dockers followed his orders and after a few days the owners asked the union to tell workers to complete a task as before and that they would be granted and that they would be granted the 10% pay increase.

GO SLOW STRIKE

  • Go Slow is a form of industrial action in which work or progress is deliberately delayed or slowed down
  • Mostly raised by labour unions a century ago, workers resorted to this form of a strike to pressurize to improve working conditions and increase daily wages in factories and industrial units.

CHANGES IN THE WORK ASPECT

  • Working days expanded
  • A significant amount of time goes into responding to emails and connecting with others over collaboration tools

COMPANIES IN THE INFORMATION AGE

  • A company engaged in a single activity branched out, this results in a focus on new customer segments or on entering new geographies
  • Now employees are required to connect with diverse colleagues to discuss and execute the organisation's critical functions.
  • Collaboration workload-collaboration technologies in the workplace, and the proliferation of initiatives to create a “one firm “culture.

IMPACT OF COLLABORATION WORKLOAD

  • Excessive collaboration harms organizational performance
  • Overworking employees for only marginal gains.

BURNOUT

  • The duo's research revealed that white-collar workers spend 70-85%of their time attending meetings, dealing with e-mails, talking on the phone, or otherwise dealing with a barrage of requests for their input.
  • Many spend so much time interacting that they end up carrying much of their work back home to be completed at night resulting in employees burnout.

QUIET QUITTING

  • It simply means that regular day-to-day tasks will be done .while there are always the ambitious, over-achieving few in an organization, a large proportion of employees prefer to do the tasks they have agreed to do as a part of their job description.

CRUNCH CULTURE

  • In the gaming industry, crunch is the word used for time. During a crunch period before an important deadline for a game's launch, developers put in about 60+ hours a week.
  • According to section 51 of the Act, the spread over should not exceed 10.5 hours.

IMPACT OF CRUNCH CULTURE

  • Collaboration overload
  • Compensation stagnation
  • Poor work-life balance

 

MAINS QUESTION

1) What solution can be suggested so that employee can improve their retention rate in wake of the recent scenario?

2) Whether Quiet Quitting is legal or illegal?

 


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