{"id":18,"date":"2022-10-18T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uniityinc.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2022-10-18T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T13:38:00","slug":"how-to-communicate-to-your-employees-about-quiet-quitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uniityinc.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Quitting is Solved with Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-site-default\n          individual-animation-site-default\n          individual-text-animation-site-default\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:2500px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n              \n              class=\"image-block-wrapper\"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-image-shape-container-element\n              \n          \n        \n              has-aspect-ratio\n            \" style=\"\n                position: relative;\n                \n                  padding-bottom:55.44000244140625%;\n                \n                overflow: hidden;-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(white, black);\n              \"\n              ><\/p>\n<p>                <img data-stretch=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6182a8f2969c0f4a5a32b5a9\/1679931863369-407CQHBL6BV1FUR12P2A\/unsplash-image-M97M2_9IFlE.jpg\" data-image=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6182a8f2969c0f4a5a32b5a9\/1679931863369-407CQHBL6BV1FUR12P2A\/unsplash-image-M97M2_9IFlE.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"2500x1386\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"\" data-load=\"false\" elementtiming=\"system-image-block\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6182a8f2969c0f4a5a32b5a9\/1679931863369-407CQHBL6BV1FUR12P2A\/unsplash-image-M97M2_9IFlE.jpg\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1386\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 100vw\" style=\"display:block;object-fit: cover; 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Let them know they are trusted to make the right decisions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Equip supervisors to provide team and role-specific feedback so that employees can fine-tune their performance and feel valued in their roles.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Proactively communicate change and new expectations so individuals are not surprised by shifting work conditions that break their sense of flow.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The communication and empathy tactics you need to reconnect on quiet quitting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uniityinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uniityinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uniityinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uniityinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uniityinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uniityinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uniityinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uniityinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uniityinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uniityinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}