Beyond Quiet Quitting: An Exploration of Early Career Research Assistants' Workplace Experiences and Quiet Cracking Phenomenon in Higher Education Institutions
Using a phenomenologically informed qualitative design and directed qualitative content analysis, the study examined interviews with nine early-career academics aged 24 to 38 years and with 3 to 10 years of professional experience. The analytic process was predominantly deductive and was organised around six a priori,...