Crazy to be lazy? What the ‘Lazy Girl Job’ trend can teach managers
The days of hustle culture and burnout are well and truly over (period). Whether it is, ‘Quiet Quitting’, ‘Acting Your Wage’ or ‘Bare Minimum Mondays’, there is no hiding that today’s Gen Z employees have developed a range of new perspectives around the ideal workplace.
Maisie Gray, partnerships associate, at Rufus powered by Initiative, is part of Gen Z, but the ‘Lazy Girl Job’ TikTok trend did, at first, leave her concerned for the expectations of our future employees
After investigating this trend, a little further, I soon realised the ‘lazy girl job’ life is not a matter of trading KPIs for days spent beachside, it’s more an empowering mindset that could teach our millennial mentors a thing or two.
The ‘Lazy Girl Lowdown’
We all have moments where we log off after a long day with sore eyes and spreadsheet sorrows. Often in these moments, we enter a downward spiral into corporate structures, long work hours and the audacity of a Sunday evening Teams message.
Easily mistaken for ‘anti-work’, this ‘anti-overwork’ attitude is the key driver behind the ‘lazy girl job’ trend.
With over 17 million views of hashtag #lazygirljob, this has taken corporate TikTok by storm. Coined by Gabrielle Judge, a ‘lazy girl job’ is a non-technical role that leads to minimal stress, a comfortable bank balance and employment minus the emotion.
