Rage applying. Hush trips. Overemployment. Since the end of the Covid crisis, the world of white-collar work has been flooded with new terms to describe ever more specific trends.
Arguably, most are little more than formulaic buzz phrases, coined in the hope of giving the creators their 15 minutes of fame. But their proliferation highlights the sheer scale of change that office workers have experienced. In little over three years, we’ve had enforced remote working, the great resignation and the great return, with a touch of economic upheaval sprinkled in for good measure.
Since the World Health Organization declared the Covid emergency over in May, it seems that there are just as many people questioning the value of work as those who are desperately clinging to their jobs through successive rounds of mass layoffs.