- Quiet quitting might be fading, but revenge quitting is ready to take its place. A growing number of employees, angry about low salaries, lack of raises, and few advancement opportunities are giving into that pent-up resentment and walking off the job.
The days of disengaged employees quietly scaling back their efforts at work are over. These days, they’re more likely to vent their frustrations—as they walk out the door.
Say goodbye to quiet quitting. The trend to watch in 2025 is revenge quitting.
A survey from Software Finder reports a growing number of workers are frustrated by factors ranging from low salaries to repeatedly being passed over for raises to a lack of opportunities for advancement. And they’re more likely to walk off the job, perhaps loudly, because of it.
Some 4% of full-time employee are planning to revenge quit this year, the study found, with most having given the idea some thought for the past 13 months. Hybrid workers are the most likely to make the move, with 7% planning to revenge quit in 2025.
Workers in the marketing and advertising, IT and tech, and media and entertainment fields are most likely to revenge-quit.
While the number of people revenge quitting is a fraction of the overall workforce, the survey found 93% of full-time employees were frustrated with their current role—and the reasons were largely the same as those who do plan to walk off the job: 48% cited low salary and lack of raises, 34% said they were feeling undervalued, and 33% saw no prospects of career growth.
The potential hurdle for some workers considering revenge quitting, though, is the growing uncertainly about the economy as the Trump administration threatens trade wars and the nation’s unemployment rate stands at 4.1%. The number of job seekers who have been without work for 27 weeks or more was up by 278,000 in December 2024, accounting for 22.4% of all unemployed people that month.
