< PreviousAnd finally The world of Frazer Jargon-busting In an age where it seems younger generations are constantly making up new terms to the confusion of their elders, concurrently almost half of Gen Z and Millennial employees say workplace jargon is making them feel left out. Research from LinkedIn and Duolingo, surveying 1,016 respondents in the UK between the ages of 18 and 76, found that over two-thirds of young people believe their colleagues are using too much jargon at work, while 54% of them are changing how they speak to fit in. Meanwhile 60% say jargon is coming across as a different language, has seen almost half make a mistake because they didn’t understand a term, and has even seen workers look up words in meetings to follow the conversation. With ‘blue sky thinking’ and ‘low-hanging fruit’ among the most annoying phrases, in your next meeting consider how much jargon is peppered into conversation. 50 Business Link www.blmforum.net Infidelity-prone professionals Are you more likely to have an affair if you work in a certain profession? According to a new study that recently made its way across Frazer’s desk that may indeed be the case. With 85% of affairs reportedly beginning in the workplace, a new RANT Casino survey has revealed that people who work in sales are the most likely to cheat, with 14.5% of those questioned admitting to having workplace affairs out of 1,644 respondents who confessed to infidelity. Following closely with 13.7% guilty of cheating on their significant other, the second most common cheaters are in education. In third place are healthcare workers, with 12.5% owning up to having cheated with a colleague, while those in transport and logistics are the fourth most likely to engage in infidelity, and hospitality and events management takes fifth place. On the flip side, partners of those working in science and pharmaceuticals, business management, and law enforcement can breathe a sigh of relief, with the three being the most faithful professions among 25 industries analysed. Coffee badging A new trend is hitting the workplace in protest of return to the office mandates and is joining an expanding range of business vernacular: ‘coffee badging’. After a couple of years of remote working for many employees, with lockdowns now a thing of the past, leaders have started pushing for their staff to come back to the office, often in a hybrid capacity. Following on from ‘quiet quitting’ and ‘bare minimum Mondays’, ‘coffee badging’ has emerged as a way for workers to meet required in-office attendance, but spend as little time as possible there. It involves staff going into the office briefly, to grab a coffee or chat with colleagues and be noticed, before leaving again to work from home. Across the pond an Owl Labs survey of 2,000 full-time workers in the US showed 60% of hybrid workers admit to coffee badging. So, as you pull employees back to the office and see them floating around, perhaps do a little scan during their on-site days to see if they simply came in to take advantage of the coffee machine. © stock.adobe.com/ (JLco) Julia Amaral © stock.adobe.com/ KMPZZZ © stock.adobe.com/ AsierSC SAINERONT H C ALS S &ALE C S S AFTERSLE AINASED CNEW & UONT STT UK DEPOT OCK NOWTIN S AINA’ C02ONT A SNER SNER YTRSOR ANY INDUF ed & BespokStandarඵ ertifiedSC CC ඵ edested & TInspectඵ sembee asfr-oolack tatplFඵ OR ANY AINERFAC ORTTI-PURPOSE STMUL ONT ybl TIONTL GERA OCA osionorrar anti ce10 yඵ s and jacorktruck runnerFඵ eablevobust and moRඵ oo....ontour CoYainerY ck rings yaour W orlery UK or WDeliv uk.oc.axatpfl.www ernationa.hscintwww ernationes@hscintlsa 110332 4744 14+ ll adwide Cl uk.oc.la uk.oc.lna xt 200 eTEL: 07496 315038 FUNDING@HEYLEP.COM WWW.HEYLEP.COM *Grants of between £5,000 and £250,000 and/or loans of between £75,000 and £250,000 ARE YOU… AN SME WHO IS LOOKING TO GROW THEIR BUSINESS? BASED IN THE EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE LOOKING FOR CAPITAL INVESTMENT? 3 3 3 GROWING PLACES FUND GRANTS & LOANS AVAILABLE*Next >