The pandemic took the existing problem of low employee engagement and made it even worse. Remote work has enabled trends such as quiet quitting, in which an employee decides to do only the bare minimum, ghosting, in which employees actually quit their job without telling their employer, and moonlighting or being overemployed, in which employees keep their full-time job but work another one (or more!) at the same time.

These trends tend to be harbored by the younger generations, such as Gen Z ...