Not so 'in the loop'? Study finds Gen Z employees barely understand office jargon
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If Gen Z doesn’t parse your internal slang, you’re burning cognitive bandwidth on translation instead of work. Treat this as a documentation and communication design problem — clean up jargon in onboarding, SOPs, and AI-generated comms so your own language doesn’t become a productivity tax.
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