Corporate & Work
Office-speak decoded — the corporate euphemisms, Agile rituals, and HR buzzwords you'll hear in every standup, retro, and performance review.
Corporate and workplace slang divides cleanly into two layers: the legacy MBA-speak of the 1990s–2010s (consultancy euphemism, sports metaphors, Agile rituals) and the post-pandemic vocabulary of disengagement, where workers name what they are quietly doing to their employers. The latter is the productive frontier — almost all viral additions since 2022 describe forms of strategic minimum effort. Signature exemplars: quiet quitting, circle back, coffee badging, bare minimum monday, lazy girl job. The category leans US white-collar knowledge work, generation millennial and older Gen Z, platform LinkedIn for the legacy stratum and TikTok for the disengagement stratum. Sino-origin terms — tang ping, lying flat — have crossed over as parallel imports.
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