In response to the quiet quitting workplace trend, quiet hiring has emerged to counteract it and reward employees who have demonstrated significant effort in their job roles. Each of these trends are based on psychological power dynamics, as companies and employees have been struggling to address issues of job satisfaction, motivation, and productivity. Quiet hiring serves to benefit companies in the current post-pandemic labor market by creating an encouraging work environment that improves retention at time when the new recruitment process is extremely costly.
See "In order to improve employee retention some companies have begun quiet hiring practices in response to quiet quitting trends", Aditya Malik, Forbes, April 18, 2023