New Work Term: “Task Masking”

Has your boss asked you to send them an email detailing everything you did last week? Well, maybe they’re trying to sniff out TASK MASKING. Because we need to give everything names (remember “quiet quitting”), there’s apparently a NEW workplace term kicking around called “task masking”, which is basically, when employees spend a lot of time and effort just trying to LOOK like they’re working hard, when, in reality, they’re hardly doing ANYTHING. There are even videos, that offer advice for task masking! Stuff like, walking fast with a laptop stuffed under your armpit, and typing really loud.