The Career Goal of the Moment Is a ‘Lazy-Girl Job’ (msn.com)
Like quiet quitting before it, the lazy-girl job is the latest iteration of 20- and 30-somethings of both genders redrawing the blurry line between life and work postpandemic. (The term follows in a long line of girl-themed trends, like “girlboss” and “girl dinner”—basically a plate of snacks—intended to be both self-deprecating and aspirational.)
Six in 10 workers say they’re putting in less than maximum effort, according to Gallup’s Global Workplace report this year. In the Gallup survey of more than 120,000 working adults, the biggest complaint from those workers was their workplace’s culture.
The Career Goal of the Moment Is a ‘Lazy-Girl Job’ (msn.com)
From Business Insider:
Ever since the baby boom that followed World War II, companies have enjoyed a never-ending supply of workers to tap. Hate your job? Fine — we’ll just replace you with one of the hundred others who would be happy to fill your shoes. The abundance of workers made them cheap — and disposable.
Times have changed and the labor market has flipped power back to workers who can do quiet quitting on the job and boast of being lazy. Seems crazy but it is what it is. The unemployment rate in my state as I write this is 3.5%. Over the next few years, the labor supply will get smaller – unless politicians open up the immigration spigot, which they might or might not do. There is much political (and public) confusion over immigration, it’s value or non-value, and who wins and who loses.
