Some people find jargon annoying. But lots of managers use it. Pippa and Phil explain some of the strangest business jargon and why we use it with the help of Anne Curzan, Professor of English ...

As they battle weaponized political rhetoric, public-safety advocates default to technical terms that confuse the communities ...

Corporate gobbledygook is widely ridiculed. But it's pervasive in the American workplace and never goes away. There's new research into who uses jargon and why. Now let's dig into some new research ...

Jargon is all around us. Everyone is moving the needle, pivoting and thinking outside the square. Ironically the term thinking outside the square was first used in the 1970s, so if you are still using ...

The U.S. military has its own language full of buzzwords, jargon, slang, acronyms, and insider phrases — some of which are used exclusively by those with rank — along with terms most civilians don’t ...

The F1 car of 2026 will be slightly narrower and slightly lighter than the machines that raced for the last time earlier this ...

Without question one of the frustrating realities of daily corporate life is the use and abuse of annoying business jargon. It’s amazing how professionals can string together jargon filled sentences ...

There are plenty of things your coworkers say that drive you up the wall. There are plenty of things that you say that drive your coworkers up the wall. But, it turns out there are some corporate ...

On the latest episode of ‘The New Way We Work,’ Fast Company editors debate the worst business jargon of all time and decide which word needs to be eliminated from our vocabulary. Click to expand.

Listen up, everyone who’s leveraging a new paradigm to monetize and optimize a business: Andy Craig–not to mention most of the rest of us–wants it to stop. Craig and Dave Yewman, cofounders of ...

Imagine you’re hiring for an important position in your company and two candidates come in to interview. One peppers his sentences with jargon. The other speaks plainly in everyday language. What can ...

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, mind-numbing startup jargon is stopping for no one. It winds up in TED Talks, pitch meetings and every tech journalist’s inbox in between. At Forbes we’re ...