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Fortune
Fortune
Alicia Adamczyk

From quiet quitting to career cushioning, all the work phrases we loved to hate this year

Mid adult businesswoman using laptop and looking away (Credit: 10'000 Hours)

If 2021 was the year of the Great Resignation, 2022 belonged to quiet quitting.

Workers, fed up with low wages and burnt out from the worldwide pandemic, stopped giving their work 110%. Instead of burning the midnight oil or going above and beyond at every turn, people—particularly young workers—said they were doing the work they were hired to do and nothing more. They were "acting their wage," so to speak.

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