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 ...

A global survey found most employees are overwhelmed by corporate vocabulary and clichés. But experts say there's a surprising social function behind all that officespeak. At a glance, these phrases ...

Roland Denning hits the books and uncovers some of the obscure origins of film lingo still in everyday use. Every trade has its jargon. New terms need to be invented for new practices, but sometimes ...

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.

If you’ve ever felt like your manager is speaking an entirely different language during a team meeting or conference call, you’re not alone. Despite its presence on the tips of countless executives’ ...

Across nine online experiments, the researchers presented nearly 6,700 participants with explanations of scientific phenomena that varied by quality (whether the explanation was circular, meaning that ...