INTERVIEW – The leader analyzes a new business phenomenon, “quiet quitting”, which is increasingly affecting executives and tertiary jobs.
Bruno Mettling is founding president of Topics, a strategic consulting firm in human resources, management and organization. He was HRD for the Orange group for a long time.
LE FIGARO. – We hear more and more about “quiet quitting”, or silent resignation. What form does this phenomenon take?
Bruno METTLING. – It’s a new form of distancing at work that comes down to doing what you’re paid for, no more and no less. It’s the 2022 version of presenteeism in the office, people who show up without committing. Quiet quitting, which mainly affects executives and tertiary jobs, is to be linked to the skills shortages that plague organizations and reverse the balance of power in companies, in particular to the benefit of the most qualified employees.
It’s a form of fed up to always do too much for the same recognition and the same pay
Bruno Mettling, founding president of Topics
How is this different from the “big quit”, or big resignation, which is developing in the United States?
It is complementary. Employees, who are more demanding and viscerally attached to a better…
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