The obvious culprit is the artificial intelligence boom that has upended the tech industry, birthing a fresh glossary of ...

Doctor consults with patient. A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Central Florida in Orlando listened to audio recordings of patient encounters and found that less than half of all ...

Jargon is all around us. Everyone is moving the needle, pivoting and thinking outside the square. Ironically the term thinking outside the square was first used in the 1970s, so if you are still using ...

On the latest episode of ‘The New Way We Work,’ Fast Company editors debate the worst business jargon of all time and decide which word needs to be eliminated from our vocabulary. Click to expand.

If you’ve been in the business world long enough, you’ve heard catchy phrases like “thinking out of the box,” “low-hanging fruit,” and “bandwidth,” just to name a few. Often called buzzwords, ...

Listen up, everyone who’s leveraging a new paradigm to monetize and optimize a business: Andy Craig–not to mention most of the rest of us–wants it to stop. Craig and Dave Yewman, cofounders of ...

There are plenty of things your coworkers say that drive you up the wall. There are plenty of things that you say that drive your coworkers up the wall. But, it turns out there are some corporate ...

One of my favorite leadership writers is Bob Sutton, author of "The No Asshole Rule" and his new book "Good Boss, Bad Boss". In a recent interview with me he spoke about "Jargon Monoxide"- the ...

This was the top-voted answer in a Reddit post asking for “Corporate Jargon That Makes You Cringe.” If you’re guilty of saying this, know that you’re annoying people. But you probably also know that ...

Without question one of the frustrating realities of daily corporate life is the use and abuse of annoying business jargon. It’s amazing how professionals can string together jargon filled sentences ...

Now's a good time — if you have the bandwidth — to touch base about a pain point that's evidently bothering many white-collar workers: office jargon. The business buzzwords (or corporate cliches, if ...

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