The Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting paradigm shifts: An overview of current situation and future research directions

Abstract

The analysis and comprehension of world events, nowadays, is best understood by dividing them as pre and the post pandemic era. Most of the principles and paradigms that governed the world before 2020 have changed and the academic community is in ferment, attempting to make sense of the new world we are living in. Two of the recent changes that have affected organizations in general and the hospitality businesses in particular, relate to its workforce and have been labeled as “great resignation” and “quiet quitting.” Both are paradigm shifts that will necessarily force hospitality managers and executives to rethink the way they have approached their internal marketing and, more broadly, human resources strategies and processes. The goal of this paper is to shed some light on the magnitude of the great resignation and quiet quitting and to propose a framework containing experiential practices that respond to the demands of the post pandemic workforce.