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    Two new work place jargons I came across

    Jargons and colloquial are always unique for the concerned generations. Most of them will have new figurative meanings far away from the original meaning of the words. Those who are outside the respective generations, or working outside those sectors will not understand the real sense in which it is used by the concerned people. For them if they go by the literal meaning it will not make any sense in that context.

    The new jargons I came across are " Dry promotions" and ' Office Peacocking". I have come across them in news bits in Dailyhunt news app.

    From them I learn that 'dry promotion' is a designation title change seeming to be promotion, but without any attendant benefits or power responsibilities.

    Peacocking is the decorative and appearance changes made in the office infrastructure to lure employees back to office from the hard set habit of work from home.

    When I Googled, the meaning I find is slightly different. But real Gen Z or members who are familiar with new gen jargons can enlighten me.

    I had posted a thread on another jargon Moonlighting especially elated to IT sector during the work from home period.
  • #779115
    I read an article on Linkiden about dry promotions. What the article says is dry promotion is giving a new designation with increased responsibilities but without any hike in the salary. As of now, many companies are trying to cut their costs. So they can't offer higher salaries. That may make some sincere employees leave the organisation. To avoid such a situation and to retain good employees, the companies are offering these dry promotions. Earlier also some employers were following this concept but now the percentage has increased, I understand.
    The second word peacocking has a different meaning than what the author mentioned. But if it is 'office peacocking', it means that to see that more employees will prefer working in the offices rather than working from home by making the ambience of the workplace look better. It is considered by employers to see employees feel happy to sit and work in the office. This is known as "Office Peacocking", I understand.

    drrao
    always confident

  • #779122
    Yes, new jargons are added from time to time by some creative people and if they are catchy they get popular and people start using them in a big way and they soon become a part of the dictionary if not already there.
    The two jargon mentioned by the author in this post are intriguing ones. The first is something that satisfies the ego of a person by increasing his official level or designation without financial benefit while the second is only to display a change in office decorations just to present a more aesthetic view.
    Dry promotion is something that some people would like but soon start complaining also because at the end of the day if there is no financial advantage to the worker or executive then extra work or responsibilities start making their toll on the person creating unnecessary stress.

    Thoughts exchanged is knowledge gained.

  • #779207
    This is an interesting post about the office jargons. I am not sure whether these two were already existing in the dictionary or people coined them.
    I remember when social media apps like WhatsApp became popular then people started to use many short cuts and some of them became much popular and still in use.
    Such words or in some cases such new words help the users to convey a particular meaning in that one word and replace the necessity of using a long sentence instead. Once they become popular more people adopt them and if they were not in the dictionary then they soon appear in it also subsequent to editing of dictionaries by the concerned people.

    Knowledge is power.


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