Most polling on quiet quitting is really polling on a definition. When YouGov asked Americans in 2022 what the phrase refers to, they split four ways: 37% said doing the bare minimum needed to not get fired, 25% said resigning without telling anyone, 19% said declining extra work you are not paid for and 6% said no longer staying silent in meetings. More than half, 56%, had heard nothing about the term at all. Once YouGov supplied a definition (doing a job without taking on additional work without compensation), support ran 47% to 27%, with 26% still unsure. The attitudes underneath split by age rather than by the label. Asked whether employees should only do the work they are paid for, 64% of adults under 30 agreed against 28% of those aged 65 and over. But a milder version of the same idea is close to consensus: 71% agreed that employees should set boundaries around the amount of extra work they do, and that held across every age group. The fight is largely over the framing, not the behaviour.