‘Quiet hiring’ will dominate the U.S. in 2023, says HR expert—and you need to prepare for it

CNBC ^ | 01/04/2023 | Natasha Pinon

[old-ager]

> Java

Poor guy. It’s a very chaotic, unreliable world, dominated by young Indians who don’t think the way you do.

All the extra time and confusion spent on free software is a very heavy tax.

And good luck keeping caught up on CVEs.

[BobL]

“I’ve never seen an industry adopt so many failed fads so quickly and throw them out when they don’t produce results”

You must not live in the US. Here, the schools LOOK for fads that fail, and then double-down on them. At most, they simply rename the failed fad - such as now calling Whole Language (a totally discredited way to teach reading that was adopted universally and religiously by the ‘education community’) - they now call “Whole Language” >> “Sight Words” and the even the most informed parents think that things are better now.

...so go figure.

[wally_bert]

The selling wizard is my top pick of the shorts.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’m most definitely in the USA. My sister has been teaching math to middle and high school kids for 45 years and she’s kept me informed of every fad to come down the pike. Usually things get so bad so quickly, they the fad and introduce a new one before the old one has even reached room temperature. Fad after fad after fad, jargon after jargon. More bad turgid, incomprehensible jargon to replace the old turgid jargon.

I thought business was bad the last 30 years! It’s 100 times worse in education.

[CapnJack]

Why make them come to the office if there is no need (depending on the position).

For me and my coworkers, our “customers” are in Europe and Australia mainly and Penn / Cali.

My company moved their offices from a large building to a building 1/3 the size and saved significant coin on the lease ... but it is 75+ miles away from me (that would be 3 1/2 hours driving if I had to go in). My other coworkers are in NC, NJ, and Conn.

I’m on the computer at 6am to 7:30, take my kid to Private School, then back to work at 8:30 and usually work till 7pm to catch the start of the day for our Australian people.

Yeah, sure there are situations where “you just need to be there” like when setting up computer system for the manufacturing floor or Quality Control area, but if it doesn’t matter if you were on the moon, what the difference between being in the office or at home (other than spending $100/gas a week and sitting in traffic for 3 hours a day).

“Back to the office” is the old “keep the employees under the thumb” mentality as well as misery loves company attitude.

Go to the office if you want ... but I know that my and my coworkers productivity has definitely increased because we work many more hours being at home then in the “office”.

[CapnJack]

Normally what happens in the “downturn” is that the deadwood gets thinned out and the remainder get all the extra work. Your salary job now is 12+ hours a day instead of the original 8+ hours.

[jerod]

The problem with human resources... Is Human Resources. They used to be payroll... Then they turned into this bloated component of any company large enough to require somebody doing payroll... Then they took over the decisions on hiring and firing, and took away the only way that managers could reward, or discipline employees. Then they made themselves the arbitrator of what’s right and what’s wrong within the workplace.

Human Resources has turned the workplace into a bloody mess... Never create a human resources department. They will bloat your payroll and bring you down to their standard of political wokeness.

[Irenic]

‘Quiet hiring’. They’re always coming out with some stupid new term. Another one—jugging...wtf.

[familyop]

"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."

Besides doing work for departments other than their own or managing two departments, more managers are doing more manual labor with their employees and working more hours. It's becoming standard in some larger corporations (retail for one). And yes, it can be difficult in several ways. Many of them are taking demotions or quitting after trying such positions.

[familyop]

Maybe many businesses are trying to make it a quiet recession.

[Secret Agent Man]

They really think they are so cool coming up with “new” phrases to describe things that have been occurring ever since we’ve had jobs.

Quiet hiring

Quiet quitting

Not new. Forcing people to assume more duties under a current position without any or very little pay increase, been going on forever. Same with quiet quitting, ie doing the absolute minimum required for compliance.

[rxh4n1]

In other words it is not hiring anyone, just shifting existing employees around.

[Overtaxed]

Pssst...nobody buy a Chevrolet.