{"id":9643,"date":"2022-11-03T11:19:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T05:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/?p=9643"},"modified":"2022-11-15T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T06:19:06","slug":"quiet-quitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/payroll\/quiet-quitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Quitting: Should You Go Beyond the Call of Duty or Not? An HR Veteran Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two kinds of employees in an organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ones that think, \u201cI am only paid to do this, so I will only do this\u2013nothing above and beyond.\u201d And the second kind that puts more energy into their work and goes the extra mile.\u00a0<\/span>Recently, many people self-identified with the former notion and have started this trend of quiet quitting.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is quiet quitting?<\/h2>\n

Quite quitting is when employees only fulfil their primary job responsibilities and are unwilling to stay extra hours, or volunteer for unnecessary meetings, and so on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What can HR and founders do to stop quiet quitting? What is the larger picture that you need to understand? Is quiet quitting awful, or is there something good that can come out of it?<\/span><\/p>\n

We sat down with Chitbhanu Nagri, Senior Vice President, People & Operations at Razorpay<\/strong>, to answer all these questions and hear his thoughts on quiet quitting. <\/span>Chitbhanu has more than a decade of experience in the HR world and has unique experience in handling large multinational organisations and some of India\u2019s respected technology startups.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Without further ado, let\u2019s get to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has their perception of quiet quitting. Some think it\u2019s a good thing that people are giving time to themselves, while others think that it leads to poor organisational performance. What are your thoughts on quiet quitting?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

In my mind, there are two ways to look at it. If it\u2019s about people giving priority to their personal well-being, i.e., \u201cI am committed to what I am doing at work, but I am equally committed to my emotional & mental wellness\u201d, then I am supportive of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the popular opinion today is that Quiet quitting is a sign of disengagement. If it\u2019s about just doing the bare minimum of your work to stay afloat, then it is concerning. There is a need to go deeper into the root cause of this trend and look for answers. Ask honest questions. Because the fundamental premise of a fulfilling work life is that each one of us would want to give our best and go beyond just our job descriptions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou talked about asking honest questions. So what are those questions that the HR or founders should be asking?<\/b><\/p>\n

Questions like,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n