“Just Want to Do My Job and be Left Alone.” a Phenomenological Examination of Quiet Quitting

This study assesses employees who self-identify as quiet quitters to explore their reasoning and its relation to meaning in life. Participants revealed 4 themes including interpersonal relations, input/output, ideal-self comparison, and role-related issues as reasons for quiet quitting. We propose that quiet quitting is a contextual (vs. dispositional) phenomenon.