The modern workplace is getting harder and harder to navigate. Between mass layoffs, return-to-office mandates, long hours, and the constant barrage of Slack pings and emails, it’s no wonder workers ...

A couple of surveys published this summer highlight the most annoying examples of office jargon. At The Durango Herald, we compared notes to see what gets under our skin the most. The language ...

Preply, which teaches clients foreign languages they need to thrive at work, also has a fix on the often weird and grating dialect of the workplace–including overused terms that make employees wince.

Move the needle. Boil the ocean. Blue-sky thinking. If these phrases have you rolling your eyes or scratching your head, a Los Angeles-based startup says it wants to help. Haystack, which provides ...

Do you use jargon at work? If you do, you might find yourself ‘old school’. Those coming into the workplace are not as keen on your ‘blue sky thinking’. The AI career tool Kickresume has considered ...

Have you ever asked an employee to touch base, or called a colleague a superstar? While it may seem like a way to build connections with your team, it's probably not having the desired effect. While ...

Workers in the U.S., Australia, the U.K., India, Vietnam, Japan, Colombia and Brazil weighed in on the business buzzwords they found most confusing. Do you have any idea what “boiling the ocean” means ...

"Proud to say we are leveraging core competencies to align with the shift to omnichannel." Whether this sentence makes you laugh or cringe, it is immediately recognizable for its overuse of corporate ...

It's important that those of you in the work force are aware of proper formal office terminology so that you'll be an informed and productive employee for the long term, or at least until Tuesday when ...

That from our press release of the week, which is really a column by career advice columnist Penelope Trunk. According to Trunk, jargon is a workplace no-no for two reasons. 1. Jargon can be industry ...