Social Loafing: Definition, Examples & How to Stop It
I've watched it happen more times than I'd like. A group comes together, everyone nods through the kickoff call, and then somewhere between that first screen-shared agenda and the actual deadline, two people are carrying everything while the rest quietly coast. Nobody says anything. The work still gets done, technically. But the people doing it know exactly what happened. That's social loafing. It feels unfair the moment you experience it, but somehow gets filed under "group dynamics" and left there.