Quiet Vacation: 37% Millennials dominate this growing workplace trend

Last updated on June 2nd, 2025 at 05:39 am

The trend of ‘Quiet Quitting’ is bygone, now the employees are eager for ‘Quiet Vacation’, a growing trend among staff who seek out work-life balance in this new way of taking time off from their hectic lifestyle. 

What is ‘Quiet Vacation’?

Quiet Vacation is nothing but employees taking time off from work without requesting or notifying it to their superiors. A trend that is basically imagined like a beautiful shoreline, buzzing food and breezy stay…with your laptop. 

This trend is more popular among the younger employees, especially among the millennials who are proven by stats to have executed and planned their vacation during their tenure. A survey conducted by The Harris Poll in 2024 revealed that 37% of Millennial workers admitted to having taken time off from their work hours without informing their managers.

‘Quiet Vacation’ Simplet tends to be defining a beach outing or a long trip to run errands. Nearly 4 of 10 employees admitted to having taken a quiet vacation. The poll surveyed 1,170 employed adults aged 18 and over and found that millennials are leading this trend.

The stat for Gen Z and Gen X shows 24% of employees opting for quiet vacation and only 18% of baby boomers taking time off from work. “This trend could very likely be driven by increased feelings of burnout and the desire for better work-life balance,” MyPerfectResume career expert Jasmine Escalera told Newsweek.

While the work-life balance debate is spiking high in the American workforce, with the country known for the few vacation days provided (i.e., 14 days a year), it is an unfair timeline during the early tenureship.

While ‘quiet vacationing’ is just another hack to skip or escape work pressure and demands, software like ‘mouse-jiggling’ was popular among the employees during the pandemic in operating Slack or other communication platforms to appear active.