Quiet quitters are unfairly maligned in a way, because there’s another group who are way worse. Loud workers. It’s lazy and cliched to say these people only exist in middle management or consultancies or quangos, although these are the kind of natural habitats loud workers thrive in. I’ve seen loud workers though in almost all the weird and wonderful work environments I’ve been in over the years. In the old days there were only so many ways you could reorganise filing systems and fanny around with Post-it notes, but new tech has given loud workers endless ways to waste time.

Source: The Irish Times November 14, 2025 12:01 UTC