'Quiet quitting' raising a din in stressful US workplaces

As workers feel their companies are squeezing more and more work out of them even as their pay stagnates and inflation soars, workplace stress has surged, according to Gallup surveys

They are drawing a line at the 40-hour work week, limiting after-hours calls and emails and generally, if softly, saying "no" more often -- some American workers are embracing the concept of "quiet quitting" as they push back against what some see as the stifling trap of constant connectivity. 

I did not have a work-life balance," Perkins explains in a TikTok video about how she chose -- though she did not have a name for it back then -- to begin "quiet quitting."