Australian workers encouraged to 'act your wage' as new trend sweeps offices trends now

Thousands of Australian workers are being encouraged to 'act your wage' and only complete work they are paid to do in a new workplace trend sweeping offices. 

Younger employees are no longer being urged to go above and beyond at work but instead 'respectfully decline' extra work tasks in order to protect their mental health. 

Gen-Z and millennial workers are focused on fostering a healthy work-life balance which can be perceived by their elders as being lazy or indifferent. 

The new workplace trend is being driven on TikTok, where creators are telling their audience they need to respectfully decline work they are not paid to do. 

US woman Sarai Marie made a TikTok video 'teaching' young people how to stop 'overextending yourself for a job that doesn't care about you or pay you enough'.

'Always remember that the amount you're being paid does reflect the amount of work that you put in,' she told her viewers. 

'If Susan tries to give you the work of two people, you are one person, you're gonna say, Susan, unless you pay me the salary of two people, I'm not gonna do that.

'Respectfully decline'. 

Another creator said 'visibility' in a company does not improve your wage and that if employers want their staff to work harder they need to 'pay them better'.

However, 'acting your wage' doesn't mean not completing work, or slacking off. 

It means knowing when to 'respectfully decline' extra work tasks if they exceed the bare minimum requirements outlined in your job description. 

The new movement comes just months after another controversial

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