Key Takeaways

Quiet quitting, wherein workers put forth minimal effort on the clock, doesn’t have the hold it once did.

Instead, job-hugging employees are reluctant to leave their roles — but it’s not all negative.

The workplace pendulum has swung from one extreme to another once again.

In the wake of the pandemic, the Great Resignation swept corporate America: More than 50 million people quit their jobs in 2022, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics . Some of them job-hopped to higher-paying positions.

Then came quiet quitting , the viral trend that saw employees put forth bare-minimum effort on the job.

Now, U.S. workers are job-hugging : holding fast to their current roles.

The job-hugging mentality is a response to uncertainty in the market, as many work

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