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‘Circle back,’ ‘synergy,’ ‘boil the ocean’: The corporate phrases Gen Z doesn’t get, and what they say instead

Fortune4 min read

From “circle back” to “bandwidth,” an updated Preply study finds young workers are trading corporate buzzwords for phrases that just say what they mean.

It used to be hard to walk through a corporate office without hearing “let’s circle back” or “let’s take this offline.” Gen Z would like to retire both. Gen Z now has the numbers to influence office culture. Glassdoor projected that Gen Z would overtake baby boomers in the U.S. full-time workforce in early 2024. As it does, it is nudging workplace language toward plainer alternatives. An updated study from online language-learning platform Preply suggests some of corporate America’s favorite buzzwords are losing their…

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