What is quiet firing?
Quiet firing is a management strategy that encourages underperforming employees to quit the organization willingly rather than through open termination. Rather than employing direct and aggressive measures, management creates an environment that makes continuous employment uncomfortable or less enticing for the individual.
Quiet firing is frequently viewed as a strategy to reduce conflict and potential legal ramifications connected with typical terminations, while simultaneously allowing the organization to retain some level of control over its personnel composition.
However, this practice has been criticized for its ethical concerns and negative effects on team morale in the long term.
Ways quiet firing is practiced
The following are the most common signs of quiet firing from management:
- Lowering tasks: Management might take away key elements of your work and reassign them to other members they wish to keep in the long term.
- Limiting possibilities for advancement: possibilities of pay raise and promotion will be dismissed. This is a very common form of quiet firing.
- providing limited feedback: Reviewing of performance will be vague and ambiguous.
- isolating the individual from crucial projects or teams: Management will not invite the particular employee to critical update meetings and remove them from projects to future business plans.
