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Apparently, a new buzzword is doing the rounds on the internet.

I'm very suspicious of buzzwords. It seems that a trend quickly becomes something grander, bigger and takes on an importance beyond the trend. 

Lately, we've had the Great Resignation (a spike in covid era resignations) and quiet quitting (covid era employees not going above and beyond). Now we have quiet hiring.

It appears quiet hiring is a response to the Great Resignation and (lazy) employees doing less, in that it is asking existing employees to take on new tasks as well as using others to manage the shortfall. 

In this way it's a management led thing, rather than a worker led thing.

According to an article I read, a new survey from hiring site Monster found that 80 percent of workers have been quiet hired, which it described as “when an employee takes on a new role with new responsibilities at their same company, either temporarily or permanently, due to need.”

Interesting.

In education, this happens all the time and has happened forever. In the various management/leadership roles I have occupied in my 40 years of employment I have had stints working way outside my comfort zone... and it all helped!

Shock, horror.