Demotivated and coasting at work? Don’t settle in that funk

IT’S TEMPTING to think about demotivation and coasting – the latter generally arising from the former – as signs to move on from a job or career you’re in.

Moving on is especially enticing when you think of it in the context of “quiet quitting” – the argument for acting for yourself, keeping firm work hours, respecting more strictly your personal time outside of work, and steadfastly not doing more than what is required of you in your job.

I’m not here to talk about that sort of coasting, though. That is an oversimplification to me. Instead, I think that there are many reasons why and how someone ends up in a rut at work; in several of these, we may not even realise that we are in one.