How well can you “talk shop”? Workplace jargon—defined as terms that are non-transparent, require explanation and are specific to the corporate world—is the subject of a new study by LinkedIn and ...

Over the eight years I’ve spent in VC, I’ve witnessed the consistently challenging vocabulary the industry creates. Venture capital is an industry full of big words, from technical acronyms to lofty ...

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 ...

Buzzwords are a form of corporate communication that is, unfortunately, all too common in the workplace. A buzzword is created to make something sound better than it is. From a psychological ...

One of the challenges of starting a new job is learning all the lingo, acronyms, and terminology specific to the workplace, and the industry as a whole. While much of that can’t be avoided, many ...

When Sawan is finished showing his flow charts and listing his financials, Lu Ann Reeb puts on her glasses and consults her notes. “What we lost in what we just saw was that hugely compelling factor ...

A linguist discusses where business buzzwords come from, what purpose they serve, and their unintended consequences. Anne Curzan, English professor at the University of Michigan, studies the evolution ...