Gen Z feels like workplace jargon is a different language, a recent LinkedIn survey found. They're also taking to TikTok to mock common corporate phrases. Here are eight of the top offenders, ...

Research shows that unclear language can undermine trust in your message. Rather than focusing on phrasing, strive to make a clear and original point, says author Joel Schwartzberg. Many pieces of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Everybody hates it. But everybody uses it. We’re talking about the dreaded office jargon, that peculiar corporate language consisting of cliches that manage to say nothing about everything. It’s time ...

Other of my jargon examples’ origins are a bit murky. The term “green room” reputedly comes from an old English term for a space for performers to wait before making an entrance on stage. It’s a sort ...