'It felt like the Hunger Games had started': Employees are 'loud working' in an effort to secure their jobs

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI Out: quiet quitting. In: loud working. Workers are loudly professing just how much they're doing. It's a shift from the bare minimum era, with workers clamoring for visibility in an uncertain market. Now, workers feel like they're competing to fend off layoffs or build job security. It's time to get loud about work. After the era of quiet quitting — workers showing up, doing their jobs, and not much beyond that — the job market's pendulum has shifted. Job-hopping is harder ; layoffs feel like a constant threat even as mass job cuts haven't yet hit the bulk of the economy. And for the employees who now feel more stuck in place, some are now "loud working" — trying to ensure their work is visible and gets noticed.