{"id":31218,"date":"2025-11-06T05:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=31218"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:43:49","slug":"workers-adopt-corporate-jargon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2025\/11\/workers-adopt-corporate-jargon\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers Adopt Corporate Jargon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

B2 – Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the modern world of the workplace, corporate jargons such as \u201cICE\u201d, \u201cping\u201d, \u201ccircle back\u201d, and \u201cdouble click\u201d abound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employees, despite being overwhelmed with such business lexicon, just resort to adopting it and using them in their day-to-day correspondences at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the article about workers capitulating to this word salad of corporate jargon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/worklife\/article\/20240202-the-animal-instinct-that-drives-workers-to-adopt-corporate-jargon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vocabulary Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. What does \u201cboots on the ground<\/strong>\u201d mean? \u201cThe sales team has <\/em>boots on the ground<\/em><\/strong>. They visit customers directly, attend trade shows, or be present at industry events to build relationships.\u201d<\/em> Use the expression in a sentence. Give a synonym.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. What does \u201cto double click<\/strong> on something<\/strong>\u201d mean here: \u201cWe need to double-click on the data<\/strong> to understand the root cause<\/em>\u201d? Use the phrase in a sentence. Give a synonym.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. What does \u201cto run something up the flagpole<\/strong>\u201d mean here: \u201cThe company first <\/em>ran the idea up the flagpole <\/em><\/strong>last year.\u201d?<\/em> Use the idiom in a sentence. Give a synonym.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. What is the importance of corporate jargon?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. What are all the things wrong with it?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. What are your thoughts on all this work parlance these days? Do you think they are necessary? Explain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Share your insights on this: But as employees have come to understand office jargon, and even rely on it, Cooper cautions companies use these words to make processes opaque.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Express your opinion on this: Cooper and Brown agree the popularity of corporate jargon has a fairly simple explanation: the desire for status in the workplace, or “human peacocking”<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Cite at least three (3) industry-specific shorthands you use in your line of work and explain what they stand for and\/or what they mean.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      B2 – Upper Intermediate  In the modern world of the workplace, corporate jargons such as \u201cICE\u201d, \u201cping\u201d, \u201ccircle back\u201d, and \u201cdouble click\u201d abound.  Employees, despite being overwhelmed with such business lexicon, just resort to adopting it and using them in their day-to-day correspondences at work. Read the article about workers capitulating to this word salad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[291,292,289,293,156,480],"class_list":["post-31218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homework","tag-b2-upper-intermediate","tag-first-certificate-fce","tag-reading","tag-text","tag-work","tag-work-and-workplace"],"yoast_head":"\nWorkers Adopt Corporate Jargon | phone english blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2025\/11\/workers-adopt-corporate-jargon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Workers Adopt Corporate Jargon | phone english blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"B2 – Upper Intermediate  In the modern world of the workplace, corporate jargons such as \u201cICE\u201d, \u201cping\u201d, \u201ccircle back\u201d, and \u201cdouble click\u201d abound.  Employees, despite being overwhelmed with such business lexicon, just resort to adopting it and using them in their day-to-day correspondences at work. 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