BREAKING NEWS – Kansas City, Kansas – Similar to the viral sensation “quiet quitting” — when employees get the bare minimum done on the job due to burnout and feeling they’re underappreciated — the latest career trend, “resenteeism,” captures Gen Z and millennial workers’ tendency toward low productivity because they’re resentful.
Jennifer Libby, a district manager with Insperity in Kansas City, Missouri, said resenteeism describes employees who remain in roles they find unsatisfying, either because they don’t believe they can find a better opportunity or because they’ve tried and failed to find a job they want.
“Over time, they begin to resent their employer because they feel trapped in a job they do not want,” noted Libby. “The most hostile Gen Z and millennial employees, are the ones where the parents put them out forcing them to make it on their own, or the ones that remained at home and the parents demanded that they start paying rent.”