Troubling Tech Career Trends: From ‘Quiet Cracking’ to AI Anxiety

The post discusses emerging workplace trends like “quiet cracking” (burnout and stagnation without leaving a job), contrasts it with “quiet quitting,” and explores how AI-driven job uncertainty intensifies career anxiety, particularly in tech and cyber roles. It suggests this climate may benefit public-sector hiring and closes with a cautionary example of a LinkedIn impersonation scam posing as Walmart’s CEO using a Gmail address, urging readers to verify identities and email domains to avoid fraud.