In a society where your dedication to work is placed on a pedestal, most of us have gone above and beyond our job description at some point – from answering emails after hours to taking on extra responsibilities without compensation. While we may have inwardly grumbled at the time, most of us won’t have really considered the impact the extra load was having on our wellbeing. That’s just life, right? Well, maybe not.

A viral new TikTok trend is encouraging people to stand firm on their workplace boundaries in a bid to reduce employee burnout and improve their quality of life – and it goes by the name of ‘quiet quitting’. As TikToker @zkchillin explains in a video viewed more than 2.9 million times, quiet quitting refers to the act of “not outright quitting your job, but quitting the idea of going above and beyond at work…You’re still performing your duties but are no longer subscribing to the hustle culture mentality that work has to be your life. The reality is that it’s not and your worth as a person is not defined by your labour.”