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This 1 New Term Describes Exactly How 2025 Feels For So Many Of Us Right Now [Quiet Cracking]
Huffington Post ^ | August 22, 2025 | Huffpost Staff

Posted on 08/22/2025 6:07:58 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

There’s a new term to describe the heightened sense of ennui workers are going through right now: “quiet cracking.”

“Quiet cracking” is what happens when you feel backed up against the wall with no other options but to work at an unsatisfying job. In a recent TalentLMS survey of 1,000 employees, over half of them said they experienced the symptoms of “quiet cracking,” or a persistent feeling of workplace unhappiness that led to disengagement, poor performance and a strong desire to quit.

To understand why Americans feel so trapped and disillusioned, simply look at what’s happening with the job economy. “Since 2020, work has felt like this really big revolving door of uncertainty, of change, of constant transitions,” Nadia De Ala, founder of Real You Leadership, told HuffPost.

And many of these changes are not benefiting workers. Because of a stagnant labor market and record mass layoffs, many workers are clinging to the jobs they have, no matter how much they dread going to the office each day.

Americans also have fewer opportunities to work from home. President Donald Trump ordered federal workers back to the office five days a week this year, and many private employers have followed suit. A quarter of Fortune 500 employees now require full-time attendance at an office in the second quarter of 2025, according to Flex Index data that tracks in-office requirements.

And these workers cannot even bring their full selves to work as diversity, equity and inclusion efforts continue to be erased and minimized by the current administration.

“When an employee of color doesn’t feel valued, doesn’t feel seen, doesn’t feel supported, that’s a whole other level of not just disengagement, but feeling a lack of value,” said Jasmine Escalera, a career expert for MyPerfectResume, a website that provides career resources to job-seekers.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: business; economy; jobs
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Ah, yes, the infamous “Huffington Post”, a very solidly commie “news” paper and unreliable source if ever there was. Yuk!


21 posted on 08/22/2025 8:14:34 AM PDT by egfowler3 (COVID-19, today's Hypochondriacal psychosis (aka: Delusional parasitosis))
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I guess life for the average woman in 1960 America and the Western world wasn’t so bad after all.

Although there is old polling on female happiness in the past, notice that we never see those old polls so that we can compare them to post feminist era.


22 posted on 08/22/2025 8:24:57 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

quiet cracking for me is when I see these perverts being put back in their closets, but I don’t say anything- I just feel good inside.


23 posted on 08/22/2025 8:28:01 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The TV series “Dirty Jobs” isn’t mentioned in this article, mines aren’t mentioned, nor paper mills, or meat processing plants, how do the roofers and septic tank emptiers feel about this new work hazard?


24 posted on 08/22/2025 8:31:04 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Oh, noz!!! The snow flakes are melting!


25 posted on 08/22/2025 8:38:21 AM PDT by Sparticus
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To: Larry Lucido

Before I retired, as I recall we had no employees of color. For me the job was just one long period of employment, at times satisfying, but basically getting nowhere as raises were all but unheard of.


26 posted on 08/22/2025 10:28:00 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: SaxxonWoods

One very basic reason for people not starting their own business is that in very many cases it simply takes too much money to get started. Of course, this depends largely on what type of bussiness you wish to start. For what I had hoped for at one time, it would have taken many thousands of dollars to do it right & I doubt I could have gotten a secured loan.


27 posted on 08/22/2025 10:32:30 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: SaxxonWoods

“”I’ve never understood why more people don’t work for themselves. Especially the ones that are convinced they know more than their bosses.””

Because... many folks don’t have the discipline, intellect, work ethic or dedication to actually “work”... for themselves. They’re the ones that get low-level jobs at big corporations and proceed to do personal stuff on company time. Slackers is a nice term for them. And if they’re of a certain race or ethnicity, they probably won’t ever be fired because.... that would be racist... and might even result in a lawsuit.


28 posted on 08/22/2025 10:41:47 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: oldtech

I started my first 3 businesses with almost nothing but that was a long time ago. 1. The cost of musical equipment, $600 2. The cost of a real estate license, $600 3. The cost of an appraisal license, $700. I already had a college degree, but that wasn’t needed for anything in my careers.


29 posted on 08/22/2025 10:45:21 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“Burnout” did not need to be redefined or reworded.


30 posted on 08/22/2025 10:52:48 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

We just called it working.


31 posted on 08/22/2025 4:21:37 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ LIFE )
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