'Lazy girl' | Is this trend an empowering movement or are female workers taking the mick?

The term ‘lazy girl’ has been growing on social media, mostly to describe the way professional women can minimise the amount of work they do whilst continuing to get paid their regular salaries. The phenomenon arose on TikTok, when influencers started to share tips on how to have a stress-free job, whilst still being economically comfortable.

This new term to describe a woman earning a comfortable salary with few job-related worries has gained quick popularity, with the hashtag #lazygirljob garnering 15.6M views on TikTok. But what does it really mean?

One TikToker with the username ‘gabrielle_judge’ explains in a viral video that “a lazy girl job is basically a job where you can quietly quit,” referring to the phenomenon of employees doing the minimum requirements of a job, without putting in anymore time, effort or enthusiasm than is necessary.

“There are lots of jobs out there where you can earn $60-80K, so pretty comfortable salaries, and not do that much work and be remote. A lot of these jobs are non-technical tech roles like marketing associate, some type of account manager, or a customer success manager...that’s a very good ‘lazy girl’ job”.