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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine you’re hiring for an important position in your company and two candidates come in to interview. One peppers his sentences with jargon. The other speaks plainly in everyday language. What can ...

In content marketing and in journalism, the word jargon has come to be used mostly as an insult. It's a label that people put on unfamiliar language they dismiss as gibberish. Jargon has another ...

NO CHILD ASPIRES to a life talking the kind of nonsense that many executives speak. But it seems that, as soon as managers start to climb the corporate ladder, they begin to lose the ability to talk ...

The U.S. military has its own language full of buzzwords, jargon, slang, acronyms, and insider phrases — some of which are used exclusively by those with rank — along with terms most civilians don’t ...

Once in a while, the use of a few phrases to enhance speech isn't a bad idea, but relying on office jargon completely can turn you into someone who isn't relatable or approachable to co-workers, we ...

You've probably heard it before in a meeting: "Let's touch base offline to align our bandwidth on this workflow." Corporate jargon like this is easy to laugh at—but its negative impact in the office ...

Science literature is often littered with technical terms that make little sense to people outside the field of research. But cave scientist Alejandro Martinez found that researchers in his field who ...