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From parents sitting in on job interviews to spouses applying to jobs on their partner’s behalf, there’s always a new cringe trend emerging in HR. Now, some workers are outsourcing the task of quitting a job.
Where in the world? It’s hard to quit your job in Japan, where many people have historically stayed with a single company their entire career (although that might be changing). Still, some young workers are avoiding the uncomfortable with their employers, Al Jazeera reported. Instead, they’re turning to a service called Exit, a startup that charges about $144 to quit a worker’s job for them. Exit will reach out to employers on behalf of the person to provide notice, which the company’s CEO says allows the worker to be more forthcoming about why they’re leaving. Exit’s clients are mostly young men.
“The two major reasons I see [that people use the service] are they are scared of their boss so they cannot say that they want to quit, and also the guilty feeling they have for wanting to quit,” Toshiyuki Niino, co-founder of Exit, told Al Jazeera.
The move appears to be gaining popularity, as several similar services have popped up in Japan since Exit’s inception in 2017, according to Al Jazeera.
Satellite view. Between quiet quitting and productivity paranoia, relationships between workers and employers are unsteady. “We’re in a crisis of trust in leadership. Leaders of all kinds...are failing some of the basic expectations that people have for how they should be treated,” Sandra Sucher, professor at Harvard Business School, told CNBC.
Maybe the move is less cringe, and more genius, from the employee standpoint. HR leaders, we want to hear from you if you’ve encountered this ultimate quiet quit; email [email protected].