How to tell if you’re being ‘quietly fired’

Feeling left out of meetings, bored at work and in desperate need of a bonus? You may be on the receiving end of a cheap tactic to get you to leave.

Melissa Twigg

Jan 4, 2023 – 4.18pm

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Lucy was living through a classic no-break-up break-up: weeks of monosyllabic texts and cancelled plans, and even her emails asking why she was being ignored were going unanswered. “In retrospect it was obvious, and if a boyfriend had been treating me this way, I’d have known what it meant,” she says, “but nobody expects to be ghosted by their boss.”

Welcome to the world of quiet firing.

The Telegraph London