Posted on 01/04/2023 2:28:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A new year is here, and with it, a new workplace phenomenon that bosses and employees should prepare for: quiet hiring.
Quiet hiring is when an organization acquires new skills without actually hiring new full-time employees, says Emily Rose McRae, who has led Gartner's future of work research team since its 2019 inception, focusing on HR practices.
Sometimes, it means hiring short-term contractors. Other times, it means encouraging current employees to temporarily move into new roles within the organization, McRae says.
"The reality for the next year is — whether or not we go into a recession — everyone's a little nervous," she says. "In a lot of cases, organizations are not necessarily doing a hiring freeze, or layoffs, but maybe slowing down a little bit on their hiring."
But every employer still has financial goals to meet — often, ambitious ones.
"The talent shortage that we talked about throughout 2022 hasn't gone away," McRae says. "So, you're in a situation where it's harder to get head count, and you have a desperate need for talent."
Hiring usually falls into one of three categories: backfilling old roles, creating new ones to help the company grow or addressing an acute, immediate need.
Quiet hiring is all about that third category, even if it doesn't technically involve any new hiring at all. The idea is to prioritize the most crucial business functions at a given time, which could mean temporarily mixing up the roles of current employees.
McRae refers to that as "internal quiet hiring." She cites a recent example: Australian airline Qantas, which asked executives to address a labor shortage last year, in part, by rotating in as baggage handlers.
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There's some inherent tension here: If you're temporarily reassigned to a different part of your company, you might interpret that as being told that your regular job isn't particularly important. After all, nobody's getting hired to backfill your old responsibilities.
Bosses can help address that by clearly articulating why the specific project or business division is so crucial to the company's success. It'll help the employee feel valued, and less likely to see the move as a sign that they need to start looking for jobs elsewhere.
Yeah, they’re going to move people to a basement office but they get to keep their red Swingline stapler.
If there is a downturn, start with making people that want to keep their job come to the office. If they won’t, good luck to them in their endeavors to find another position during the recession.
I said it! Now flame away!
Quiet hiring can only happen if you can find people that actually want to work…that’s the challenge right now.
I believe that, up until this year, that was always called "reorganization." But hey, let's use a cool, new term.
I don’t call it flaming, but what’s the point of that?
Especially in undermanned fields.
I do electrical distribution design. Too few workers and getting older.
Sitting at home, I design in multiple states.
Is that to kind of neuter the jobs reports, or perhaps render them obsolete and therefore unnecessary altogether?
This has been going on for decades. It was called “flexible” workplace. Way back when “team” was the flavor-of-the-day management buzzword.
Manufacturing company I just started with is hiring out loud. They kept going during covid while their competitors in blue states/cities shut down so they gained a ton of new customers.
I was a VP of Operations and wearing too many hats - HR, IT, Purchasing, Project Manager, Payables Manager...
I was also one of five owners. Three of the owners decided to get rid of two of the owners - fired us/bought us out. Since I only owned 5% of the company, buying me out was easy. Replacing me was more...interesting.
They actually gave me two months to train the 5 people that were replacing me.
Yep, these guys were financial geniuses.
I won’t go into the amount of money they spent on IT upgrades when the new IT people refused to work on the old hardware they wouldn’t upgrade because I kept it working. I asked for money for upgrades in every budget, but was voted down because IT spending didn’t increase revenues. Genius.
They were effectively out of business within 7 years of my departure. They only hung on that long because they just kept stripping the company of production capability and assets.
So now the trend is to get employees to do what I was doing all along.
The wheel goes round and round.
HR expert? There is no such thing. Talk about scraping the bottom. People in HR deserve the same respect as groomer teachers and congressmen.
Poor Natasha, the author of this trash, trying to be Gen Z edgy thru building on the Millennial quiet quitting trend broadcast on Fakebook and Reddit, two loser social media platforms.
Overall, Gen Z scribblers are not interesting.
“Sometimes, it means hiring short-term contractors. Other times, it means encouraging current employees to temporarily move into new roles within the organization, McRae says.”
That’s supposed to be new??
Some moron comes up with some new mysterious terms, like “quiet quitting” or “quite hiring” and a lot of “loud idioits” pick it up and try to impress people with their newfound jargon.
“Quiet quitting”, aka, lazy bums, have been there forever. And so have “quiet hiring”, aka, independent contractors.
There I got it off my chest... I already feel better.
Lol
bkmk
New names, but same old strategies and tactics. “Quiet Hiring” reminds me of “rainstorm” being called “Bomb Cyclone” or “Atmospheric River” and a cold snap re-christened a “Polar Vortex.”
Millennials and modern authors need to invent new words and phrases every day to keep the clicks coming and the consulting and writing contracts renewed.
Remember “right sizing”? That was a good one. “Sayonara, buddy...you’ve been ‘right sized’.”
Well, I think English is the other swing of the pendulum by inventing and creating not new words but additional Thesaurus entries for existing words and phrases. From Quiet Quitting to Quiet Hiring.
What a load of utter rubbish!
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