Office Slang

A large signing bonus to lure a new hire aboard.

To adjust staff or resources, often a layoff euphemism.

Operating at a financial loss.

Future cost of quick-and-dirty solutions now.

To advance upward through job ranks and promotions.

The bottom-line result after everything.

Holding multiple jobs or roles across fields at once.

To have a noticeable, measurable impact on results.

Content glorifying overwork and relentless grinding as aspirational.

Success on your own terms without chasing the top job.

To generate ideas.

Variant of move the needle: to make a noticeable impact.

A small autonomous team on a secret project.

To think something over.

Retraining a worker for a completely different role.

A team meeting held away from the office.

To test how something holds up under extreme conditions.

End Of Message: nothing more in the email body.

An unstructured transfer of everything you know.

To contact or message someone, usually quickly.

Planned or in progress but not yet done.

To significantly improve something.

To give someone a reason to act.

A reporting relationship without direct authority.

Pushing an employee out by making their job miserable instead of firing them.

Workers moving to better-fitting jobs rather than leaving work entirely.

The extra benefit gained when two teams or things combine.

A low-priority item set aside for later.

Consistent experience across all customer channels.

Secretly taking time off without telling your employer.

A hustle-culture mantra glorifying relentless work.

To needlessly redo something that already works.

An employee who reports to a given manager.

A movement critical of exploitative work and hustle culture.

Ultimately; when all is considered.

Measurable progress or momentum.

To reach shared agreement on something.

To move something down the priority list.

Excessively controlling and scrutinizing employees' work.

Quietly lining up a backup job in case yours falls through.