The most effective ways to manage an employee who is unmotivated and mentally checked out

• Leigh Thompson is an MBA professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.
• Thompson says disengaging is treatable and recommends creating a one-page team charter. 
• She also says it is up to the manager to set the tone of the workplace. 

Quiet-quitting, as a concept, has always been around. When TikTok got a hold of it, it became a suspected diagnosis for millions of employees.

According to the viral video, quiet-quitting is doing the bare minimum at work. Rather than going above and beyond, the sole goal of a quiet-quitter is to do enough to justify their continued compensation.