TIKTOK is flooded with clips from gene Z-workers who give up in the middle of the layer or tie their exit interviews. It is part of a wider increase: #Quittok generated millions of postsResignation to a viral trend. These dramatic outputs are not the problem. They are the signal.
If an employee deteriorates in front of the camera, it doesn’t come out of nowhere. This moment is a delayed indicator of a leadership breakdown that hit a record long before someone met. The expectations were missing. Feedback ignored. Trust eroded. These public resignations are the last stop on a street that is paved with poor guidance, not with a functional disorder of generations.
We fix ourselves on the spectacle how people go, but the real story is WhyAnd what is more important, why managers never saw it.
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The distance between the first day and a public resignation is filled with missed off -ramps: onboarding, which never clarified the expectations, one -not -s -ins -ins -ins -or -feedback that have never landed. According to Gallup, Only 12% of the employees agree That your organization does a great job to hold new employees. This means that most people start their work with confusion, not clarity and a weakened connection before they had the chance to be successful.
The signs of a solution are often long before a strike takes place. Calm termination. Reduced communication. Off camera meeting and half-hearted check-ins. Accordingly Gallup’s report from 2023 “Condition of the global workplace”Only 21% of employees are committed to work, a decline compared to the previous year. And it’s not just the workers on the front who check out. The manager’s commitment has dropped to only 27%and shows that even managers do not feel supported or separated.
More than three quarters of the global workforce are on the road under full commitment, and many are already checked psychologically before the dramatic departure ever occurs.
But not all distributions end in a viral resignation. Some of the most harmful losses are invisible. Hochtüterte that used to raise their hands, offer solutions and withdraw the extra parts – no longer because they no longer interest it, but because nobody noticed it than they did. Recognition is one of the most overlooked tools in leadership. And if there is no recognition for your contributions or your value, your best people don’t blow up on the way outside. They fade long before you see what they have lost.
Gen z is not to blame
In my work as a leadership consultant, I saw how quickly this pattern developed in teams, especially under pressure. A manager starts a new setting, “simply not motivated”. A top -class artist stops volunteering. Check-ins are skipped and then forgotten. Both sides will feel separated shortly. One person stops trying. The other accepts the worst. And then one day the employee is gone.
This is not a gene Z problem. This is a management problem.
And here is the deeper problem: when someone ends revenge, it is often the first time that your absence can be felt completely. They are only visible when they go. Her deletions remained unaffected. Her concerns remained outrageous. And now, in a single moment of the public rebellion, you have made a point whether you like the delivery or not.
As a guide, we have to ask: What do we get out of our teams when they leave us so much?
There is a gap between the opinion of how companies lead you to, compared to the way in which employees experience it. We claim to appreciate feedback, but don’t take the time to give it. We treat onboarding like a checklist instead of a basic experience. And when feedback occurs, it is often too short: Only one of four employees agrees strongly that, according to Gallup, you will receive valuable feedback from colleagues. This silence does not motivate; Trust breaks. And if you don’t recognize top performers, it doesn’t take long for you to stop your best quiet.
Nevertheless, the reversal is equally clear: 80% of the employees who received a meaningful feedback last week were fully committed. This one number shows which headlines about revenge no longer do: this is not about claim. It’s about missed leadership opportunities.
Out-of-touch management
It is time for you to reset, not only in the way we talk about revenge, but also how we lead. This reset begins upstream, long before a letter of withdrawal is drawn in. As we set, it begins to determine expectations and appear consistently.
A strong culture does not remove a wear. But it reduces volatility. It makes room for hard conversations. It ensures that outputs happen privately, not with a microphone. Until someone was coated, it is not only frustrated. You’re done.
And it’s not just a reputation problem, it is an economic one. Gallup estimates that employees laid out the global economy 8.8 trillion dollars lost in lost productivity every year. Not just a Tikok trend, but the costs for the neglect of the leadership.
The revenge can feel new, but it is just a modern symptom of a centuries -old problem: leadership that is not with what its people want to say. The message is clear. Do we listen to?
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