You’ve probably heard of “quiet quitting,” the trend that saw employees doing the bare minimum of work and silently checking out of jobs they didn’t enjoy but financially needed. Then came “loud quitting,” which is essentially what it says: making a lot of noise about why they’re walking. But now, workers are so frustrated with
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Heigi Jeong. It has been edited for length and clarity. People often assume that I quit my six-figure job in product design because of severe burnout or an existential crisis, but that wasn’t the case. I moved from Korea to Toronto in 2020 as an in-house
Employees have long been sold the idea that working hard and outperforming their peers would lead to sizable pay hikes and title upgrades. But now, some companies are ditching merit-based wage bumps in favor of “peanut butter raises”—and it’s hurting employee morale. Around 36% of U.S. companies say they gave out standard, across-the-board pay increases
Carson Daly has commented on why Keke Palmer is hosting “The Voice: Celebrity,” an upcoming spinoff of the NBC singing competition he’s hosted for 15 years. After praising the new series as a “fun, new idea” that he’s “been talking about on ‘The Today Show’ for a while now,” he wrote in an Instagram caption
Sharon Stone has stopped smoking marijuana. His journey to cutting ties with cannabis began when he was prescribed several medications after suffering a near-fatal stroke in 2001. “I stopped taking one of the medications I was taking for my stroke last September and was told I couldn’t stop,” Stone tells me. “They said, ‘You can’t
