‘Quiet cutting’: A reassignment for your good, a subtle approach to layoffs, or a mix of both?
great resignation, quiet quitting, moonlighting, bare minimum Mondays, resenteeism, quiet hiring, rage applying and quiet firing. Now, something new has been added to the corporate dictionary: quiet cutting.
So, what does quiet cutting signify? What relationship does it share with its predecessors, and how can it impact employees? Does quiet cutting mean firing or reassigning or something else? Answering these questions is important because even though many trends arrived, disrupted workplaces and vanished, layoffs continue to wreak havoc.
Understanding the difference between three workplace trends
Quiet cuttingQuiet hiring
Quiet firing
A corporate strategy adopted by companies to reassign employees to other positions to save themselves from the cost of hiring and training new employees as well as handing out severance packages
It allows organisations to address immediate staffing needs without hiring. They do so majorly by putting additional responsibilities on existing employees or by reassigning them to a new position
Managers take a passive-aggressive approach and intentionally create a hostile work environment to slowly force employees to quit
Achal Khanna, CEO of professional human resources membership association SHRM India, APAC & MENA, says that industry verticals are facing varying levels of uncertainties because of many issues, including macroeconomic trends across the world. There are mixed cues and so organisations are constantly adjusting their targets, business processes and resource planning.
Does quiet cutting share any relationship with its predecessors quiet hiring and quiet firing?
Reassignment is not a new concept. Hiring new talent, paying for severance and coaching new joiners can be an
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