Disaffection at Work: Employee Responses to Job-Related Information

Beatrice Braut, Mariele Macaluso and Vincenzo Mollisi

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Abstract: Quiet quitting reflects a form of worker disaffection that operates along the intensive margin of labor supply rather than through job exit. We study how alternative workplace narratives shape workers' behavioral responses using a randomized survey experiment on a representative sample of employees in Italy and France. Respondents are exposed to empirically grounded moral framings of work emphasizing either social justice and collective rights or work organization and employment practices. We find that moral framings reallocate behavior across margins: justice-oriented narratives increase detachment while reducing passive disengagement, whereas organization-centered framing generates no systematic effects.

Date: 2026-08
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