Gen-X career coach and employment influencer named Brian Creely is credited for coining the term “Quiet Quitting” in 2022. Quiet quitting has been framed in different ways, but it essentially boils down to doing only the required tasks associated with one’s job and not going “above and beyond” one’s job description. In other words, it is the middle ground between underperforming and overperforming (Salvucci, 2023).