The Silent Resignation

Jeremy Durand
Oct 25
1 min read

Summary:

After months of being overlooked, interrupted, and excluded from key projects, a long-standing staff member simply stopped contributing. They didn’t file a complaint. They didn’t quit — not immediately. They just emotionally checked out. Leadership framed it as “disengagement,” but never asked what they had done to contribute to the silence.

Ethical Lens:

Lack of feedback culture
Passive leadership avoidance
The danger of normalizing disengagement

Leadership Insight:

Disengagement isn’t laziness — it’s often the final symptom of a broken workplace relationship. Leaders need to ask: Who have we lost without noticing?

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