Survey shows that managers have no influence on quiet quitting ... unless they're really bad

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Zenger Folkman released results from an interesting survey of 13,000 employees today.

It shows that the manager’s performance doesn’t impact employees’ quiet quitting.

As you can see in the graph below, quiet quitting is fairly stable at between 2 to 5% of employees across the spectrum of good and bad managers.

Only for the really bad managers, the bottom 10%, does the quiet quitting rate suddenly rise to 14%.

One might get the impression that the quality of management is largely irrelevant unless it's truly egregious (bottom 10%).

This is far from the case. Good management can have an impact on workers' desire to "go the extra mile," as shown below. It's almost a linear relationship. That's, the better the manager, the more willing workers are to try hard.

Long story short: management is important.

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