Silent Firing: New Workplace Trend Explained

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30 October 2024

The corporate sector has witnessed numerous workplace trends including great resignation, quiet quitting, moonlighting and rage-applying


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However, all of it is expected to be replaced by "silent firing", a fad that has already begun to rule the employment industry


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As workers worry that they could lose their jobs to artificial intelligence (AI) in the future, some experts have claimed that it is already happening


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Employers are "silent firing" or making roles so hard that workers quit and, subsequently are replaced by AI, the New York Post reported


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This is why Amazon is forcing employees to come into the office five days a week despite most of the workforce expressing dissatisfaction with the policy, one expert claimed


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Despite some data that proves remote work boosts productivity, companies like Amazon are "silent firing” workers by enforcing return-to-office policies


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This is because the best way to decrease retention while saving on severance would be to remove remote work, experts explained 


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"What makes this even more alarming is that we have not even scratched the surface of the AI adoption curve," George Kailas, the CEO of Prospero.Ai, said


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Notably, worries about AI taking over jobs come as GenZ fuels another workplace trend dubbed the "Great Detachment"


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This trend refers to a decline in employee engagement due to dissatisfaction among workers


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