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“Loud Working” Takes Over The Office
Raising the volume // Illustration by Kate Walker
The hottest new workplace trend is “loud working” — making sure your bosses are really, really aware of just how invaluable you are to the company.
The Big Pitch: Yes, “loud working” sounds a lot like just doing your job well and wanting the higher-ups to notice you (i.e., how work typically… well… works). But work culture post-COVID has gotten kinda wonky and lopsided when it comes to incentives, leading to trends like “quiet quitting” and “quiet vacationing.” After so much time being quiet, reminding managers you’re still there is becoming paramount to avoiding layoffs.
Between The Cubicles: Oh, how the pendulum swings.
Loud working can involve taking on projects that get a lot of visibility from higher-ups, speaking up in meetings, or pinpointing tasks that need to be done before they’re assigned.
It can also mean cranking up the volume on your personal brand, whether by becoming a thought leader on social media or juicing up your website or project reels — things that boost visibility both within and outside an organization.
Employees who loud work in public also have the ability to jump to the front of the recruiting line when looking for a new role. Companies are actively searching for people who organically want to share their accomplishments.
Final Shout: With so many layoffs happening seemingly every single week and the job market feeling like a ghost town, Vicki Salemi, a career expert with the job site Monster, told Insider that workers are “concentrating more energy on demonstrating their value internally where they already are.”
Of course, all that peacocking could lead to some serious burnout. As one former Meta employee put it, “It felt like the Hunger Games had started. Everyone was trying to take on as much work as possible and get as much spotlight as they could.”
The Future: Expect AI agents to play a big role in this loud work era — there’s only so much bandwidth in a day to do more work than your fellow humans.
Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
Edited by Nick Comney. Polled and Copy-edited by Kait Cunniff.
Published by Darline Salazar.