Sir, – Olive Keogh’s piece on “quiet quitters” is as insidious as it is disturbing.
The pejorative term “quiet quitter” is applied to employees “no longer willing to go the extra mile for an employer”.
Ms Keogh’s article goes on to concede that such employees “continue to complete their assigned workload to the same (often high) standard”.
Simply put, this means that such employees are competent, mastering the brief assigned to them.
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Should organisations wish for employees to go “the extra mile”, the onus is on them to encourage this behaviour through rewards, recompense and recognition. – Yours, etc,
JOHN NAUGHTON,
Leopardstown,
Dublin 18.
