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Quiet quitting: How can we re-engage disengaged employees?
Friday, September 12, 2025
Following our recent discussion on how to support teams in becoming more proactive, our next pressing question comes from a familiar challenge many of you are navigating: quiet quitting.
Quiet quitting happens when employees don’t officially leave—but mentally and emotionally, they’ve checked out. They do the bare minimum to keep their jobs, which can lead to significant hidden costs to organizations.
What makes this issue especially challenging is that traditional management tools (i.e., "carrots and sticks") are increasingly ineffective, especially with younger workers. Many no longer prioritize promotions (carrots) or fear job loss (sticks) in the same way previous generations did. Instead, they’re driven by meaning and purpose in their work.
That’s why we suggest a different approach.
Below is a short video from our manager playbook on Quiet Quitting, introducing our strategy for re-engaging employees by reconnecting their daily tasks to shared values and a sense of mission. It all starts with a conversation: What do we do, and why does it matter?
Want to learn more about how to reduce quiet quitting through practical, evidence-based conversations?
Learn more about our manager toolkit HERE
Meet Dr. Dayna, Ph.D.
Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley is a Registered Psychologist with two decades of professional experience in clinical psychology, health psychology, and organizational psychology. She has extensive applied experience and research knowledge on burnout, psychological safety in the workplace, behaviour and organizational change, and wellness leadership. She is an internationally recognized expert in human behavior. She conducts innovative research at Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s University, with a distinguished track record of 55 peer-reviewed publications and over 140 scholarly presentations. She is the author of "Healthy Habits Suck: How to get off the couch and live a healthy life even if you don’t want to"
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