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Quiet cracking is when workers "show up, they do their job, but they struggle in silence while they do it," as Giampietro put it in a recent interview with Business Insider.
Step aside, quiet quitting. Now, employers have to worry about 'quiet cracking' Sarah Jackson 2025
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According to learning management system company TalentLMS, quiet cracking is situated somewhere between burnout, suffered by some ambitious but overloaded workers, and the quiet quitters who are actively slacking their way out of jobs they no longer want.
How to Respond to ‘Quiet Cracking,’ a New Workplace Threat 2025
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