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Quiet cracking (n.) is gradually losing motivation and well-being at work while still showing up and doing the job.
Quiet cracking (n.) is keeping your camera on while everything else switches off.
The term is credited to learning platform TalentLMS, whose survey said 20% of U.S. workers frequently experience it and 34% occasionally.
Quiet cracking (n.) is what job hugging turns into when the hug lasts too long.
Unlike quiet quitting, a deliberate pullback, quiet cracking describes unhappiness that builds gradually and often doesn't show in performance numbers.
Quiet cracking (n.) is a hairline fracture that passes every performance review.
Quiet cracking (n.) is workplace misery, named by a training company that happens to sell the cure.
Quiet cracking (n.) is quiet quitting without the choice.
Quiet cracking (n.) is quiet the way ice is quiet before it gives.