Workers are ‘loud working’ to hold on to their jobs (opens the source in a new tab)
- With job-hopping harder and layoffs a constant worry, some employees are swapping quiet quitting for “loud working”: making sure bosses and colleagues see what they deliver.
- Tactics range from focusing on the two or three problems a manager cares about most to posting daily on LinkedIn or TikTok; one chief-of-staff poster says it helped her land a new role.
- A laid-off Meta employee likened the scramble for visibility to the Hunger Games, and a Monster career expert warns that constant self-promotion can backfire into burnout or credit-grabbing.
Why it matters Visibility is turning into a form of job insurance, which rewards people who can explain their work well, not only those who do it.
Other side If everyone gets louder, managers may learn to discount the noise, and quieter high performers or less glamorous team projects could lose out.