Gen Zers are shaping the workplace in many ways. They prioritize a work-life balance, reject the corporate ladder, and coined terms like “lazy-girl jobs” and “office siren.”
Office jargon is another corporate relic that Gen Z is unsubscribing from, refusing to “circle back” or get their “ducks in a row.”
“Gen Z isn’t playing the corporate language game,” Emily Durham, a recruiter and popular TikToker, told Business Insider.
“They’re not using that same jargon that I think we were so forced into.”
Younger employees aren’t buying into confusing corporate jargon
A 2023 LinkedIn and Duolingo survey of 1,016 professionals aged 18 to 76 found that 48% of Gen Z and millennial respondents felt left out at work because of the overuse of phrases such as “blue-sky thinking” and “low-hanging fruit,” according to a press release.
About 60% of the Gen Z and millennials surveyed said this workplace jargon felt like another language, and two-thirds …