English
quiet crackingquiet cracking
quiet + cracking, on the model of quiet quitting.
Formed from quiet + cracking
Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- ‘rest’
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Latin quiēscō ‘to rest’
Latin quiētus ‘at rest, quiet’
Old French quiet
Middle English quiete
English quiet
Middle English craken
Middle English crakynge
English cracking
Today it means
noun The decline in an employee's sense of well-being and motivation in a job.
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