From Fortune · Orianna Rosa Royle · · 1m 20s
Loud working is backfiring on younger staff
Workers spending hours a week self-promoting on social media are getting ahead, but driving colleagues to quit.
In brief
Workers spending hours a week self-promoting on social media are getting ahead, but driving colleagues to quit. Young workers spending five hours weekly self-promoting see career gains, but one in five colleagues have quit over the trend. Originally reported by Fortune.
The new workplace trend
Workers are loud working: spending hours each week making their achievements visible on social media, Slack, Teams and in meetings instead of quiet quitting.
How much time it takes
Research from Tide found the average UK worker spends one hundred thirty-one hours a year, or two point eight hours a week, making their work visible.
It actually works
Seventy-seven percent of loud workers had at least one career opportunity in the past year including pay rises and promotions. Seventeen percent landed new jobs because they were vocal about their work.
But colleagues are quitting
More than one in four workers have considered leaving a job because of loud working culture. One in ten have already quit. Nearly half of twenty-five to thirty-four-year-olds have considered quitting over it.
The real divide
George Schmidt, Tide's CEO for the UK and Europe, said there is a difference between being performative and backing yourself. Many workers want employers who reward hard work, not just the loudest voices.
“there's a difference between being performative and backing yourself”
The key point
Young workers spending five hours weekly self-promoting see career gains, but one in five colleagues have quit over the trend.
