In August 2022, when “quiet quitting” spread on social media, the legal news site LTO asked the labor lawyer Michael Fuhlrott what it meant. Es lässt sich ins Deutsche am besten mit ‘Dienst nach Vorschrift’ übersetzen. It is best translated into German as work to rule. The aim, he said, is not to harm the employer, and the employer’s legal options are very limited. German case law ties the duty to the person. The Federal Labor Court ruled in 2003 that an employee may not set the level of performance arbitrarily, but must work with appropriate use of his personal capacity.