An employee at the company is fed up. They’ve essentially quiet-quitted already, but as their days drone on, meeting after useless meeting leads them to experience a building sense of rage. The frustration reaches a boiling point, and they decide that quiet quitting is no longer enough. The alternative to quiet quitting? Loud quitting—it entails not just the passive disengagement of quiet quitting, but active disengagement, coming with malice [1] bundled.
Loud quitting is the next of trends, part of the quiet firing and quiet quitting series. Specifically, loud quitters are defined and characterized as those who don’t just disengage, but seek to cause “direct harm” to their organization. Loud quitters may try to undermine organizational leadership or otherwise sabotage [2] their organization on their way out. The trend is disruptive to companies, as loud quitters can leave some chaos in their wake.
It goes without saying that the presence of loud quitters (especially if there are several) in an organization typically indicates there are problems within the professional culture of the organization. Those actively participating in loud quitting can further damage company morale [3], but what sets quiet and loud quitters apart is usually a matter of management.
Indeed, research cited by BusinessInsider noted that effective people management can be enough to turn a loud quitter into a quiet quitter. Furthermore, effective management stands to curtail [4] quitting in all volumes altogether. For the frustrated employees out there dreaming of bringing about the collapse of their organization, consider setting aside some time to speak with a manager first.