“Quiet quitters”—employees who strictly stick to their job descriptions and do only the bare minimum required of their tasks—now make up a majority of the U.S. workforce, according to the results of a latest Gallup survey.
Most quiet quitters fit Gallup’s classification of “not engaged” at work. Apart from the 50 percent quiet quitters, the proportion of “actively disengaged” workers in the country during the second quarter this year was at 18 percent, Gallup said in a Sept. 6 report. At 1.8 to 1, the ratio of “engaged” to “actively disengaged” employees is the lowest in nearly a decade. Of the remaining workforce, only 32 percent were “engaged.”…