So he’s jobhugging. So jobhugging is the current workplace trend in which people cling to their current roles out of fear rather than career satisfaction. The Psychological Toll of Jobhugging and Modern WorkPsychologically, jobhugging feels somewhat vengeful to me, but it's also in line with what Karl Marx prophesied as the alienation and disenfranchisement of laborers. Jobhugging is like going on strike without holding a sign in front of a picket line. Quiet quitting and jobhugging are two expressions of the same psychological desire to correct the cosmic injustices imbued by what we consider to be “normal” capitalistic interactions.