MINNEAPOLIS – Traditional hiring in the U.S. recently experienced its smallest monthly gain in over two years and there’s a new labor-related term trending, “quiet hiring.”
Dr. Ross Jahnke of the University of Minnesota says it refers to the practice of expanding an organization’s capacity, the capacity of their workforce without increasing the employee headcount.
To fill employment needs, Jahnke says some companies are hiring contract workers or doing temporary reassignment to a department that has a shortage, or maybe just have people expand their current roles.
Quiet hiring follows last year’s “quiet quitting” trend where employees didn’t outright leave their positions, but instead put in the minimum amount of work needed to stay afloat.
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