05/28/2025

Forget Quiet Quitting

Apply ‘loud living’ to redefine workplace boundaries

In my 20s, I was the kind of employee managers loved and about whom therapists worried.

I worked late without being asked. I answered emails during vacation and treated 11 p.m. messages like asteroid-headed-for-Earth emergencies. My identity was stitched to my output, and I wore burnout like a badge of honor.

Somewhere along the way, many of us signed this invisible contract stating that success demands sacrifice. For us, time, health and relationships were all fair game in the pursuit of professional validation. But now, more people are realizing it's a contract they want to break: According to Gallup's most recent global report, employee engagement is down two percentage points to just 21 percent, and manager engagement saw an even more dramatic drop.

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