What Is Quiet Quitting and Has it Occurred in Oil and Gas? - Rigzone News

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What Is Quiet Quitting and Has it Occurred in Oil and Gas?

Quiet quitting is something that many people associate with younger generations as it really began to get noticed as a trend on one of the social media platforms.

That’s what Christopher Melillo, the founder and managing partner of the Dallas, Texas, based Kaye/Bassman Energy Practice told Rigzone.

“However, don’t be fooled by that misnomer,” he added.

“Experienced professionals who have burnt-out with no upward or different roles available can also fall into this behavior pattern,” he continued.

Melillo told Rigzone that, “essentially”, quiet quitting is “a manner in which an employee goes about their job in doing the absolute minimum, not engaging in meetings or work groups, unwilling to put in any overtime or extra effort on projects”.

“This started to really come about during/post Covid. In many cases it was/is the result of losing enthusiasm for a job or possibly losing any enthusiasm for the firm you work for but not necessarily the job,” he added.

Melillo highlighted that there are many causes for quiet quitting and said often “the issues are deeper than just having a lazy employee”.

“Many job changes are often motivated by lack of perceived value within your respective company,” the Kaye/Bassman Energy Practice founder told Rigzone.

“Lack of recognition or even trust for important missions. These motivators are more prevalent than changing roles for better remuneration,” he added.

“Quiet quitting happens more commonly in large organizations where someone doing the bare minimum is not even noticed as it is easier to hide in the large machine than a smaller company,” he continued.

“But not being noticed also bolsters the feeling of not being valued and more often than not is actually the case,” Melillo went on to state.

Quiet Quitting in Oil and Gas

Is quiet quitting happening in the oil and gas industry?

“Of course it is,” according to Melillo, who noted that “this happens in all industries”.

“However, it is not happening at a very high level in the professional disciplines such as engineering or geoscience. In fact, with the constraints and shrinking oil and gas market, more often than not, you will find people in those roles doing the exact opposite of the quiet quitting crowd,” he added.

“They will be going the extra step to ensure continued employment as well as work hard to produce better returns for their company,” he continued.

Another reason you will not see this in those two discipline groups is that there aren’t many other industries where their skill set and expertise are easily transferrable, Melillo noted.

“Don’t get us wrong, we’re not saying that it completely does not exist there, as nothing is absolute in any human capital formula,” Melillo told Rigzone.

“Where you may find quiet quitting in oil and gas with some higher numbers would be in some of the shared services groups where professionals involved in marketing, billing, customer service, IT, or other functional disciplines are transferable to all industries,” he added.

“Once again, we are not calling out anyone here. Quiet quitting even hits our industry where we are only compensated off of individual production,” he continued.

At any rate, Melillo told Rigzone that, “as a whole, I would say that we have not heard from our market at any extensive rate that this has been a major issue within the oil and gas firms”.

“So, our conclusion would be that your readers are not in a highly affected industry for this way of being,” Melillo added.

Kaye/Bassman was founded in 1981 with a mission to positively impact companies and enhance careers by providing the best in professional, executive, technical, and scientific search, Kaye/Bassman notes on its website.

The company describes itself as a Dallas recruiting and search firm providing global recruiting solutions with a full range of permanent placement options ranging from retained and/or contingency search. The business focuses in healthcare recruiting, energy recruiting, insurance recruiting, banking recruiting, pharmaceutical recruiting, medical device recruiting, and over 15 other recruiting specialty practice areas, according to its site.

To contact the author, email andreas.exarheas@rigzone.com

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