| Some call this mindset “anti-hustle.” Fortune‘s Trey Williams uses the term coined by Black women, the “soft life.”
The “soft life,” Williams explains, is a distant cousin to “quiet quitting.”
“Living a soft life doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t have a job, it just means your job is not your whole world,” he adds.
Worker values have been changing steadily for decades. New York University sociology professor Deirdre Royster told Williams that employees are trading “The American Dream” for a “good American life.”
“In the ’80s people asked: ‘How do we maximize?'” she says. “But now people are asking, ‘What’s the minimal amount I need to live a sustainable life?'”
If you’re the boss, that concept might sound foreign. How do you motivate employees who don’t want to become you?
To learn more about “the soft life,” read Trey’s story, below. |
