India, April 27 -- In late 2020, a sales executive in Arizona named Marisa Jo Mayes sparked a trend on TikTok, called #QuitTok. It began with a series of posts in which she explained why she was burnt out, and could not function in her role any more.

She needed immediate relief, she said, in the minutes leading up to her live-posted resignation. "It's like an elephant foot off my chest, but I'm also sad," the 26-year-old added, after it was done.

If that seems like an unusual way to quit, or deal with professional pressures, well, a new generation is finding novel ways to express their experience of the workplace, call out presenteeism in all its forms, and describe a world that is changing at one of the most rapid paces in industrialis...