Corporate America's $47 Million Jargon Crisis https://bohiney.com/literal-business-terms/
NEW YORK - Bohiney.com's six-month investigation reveals U.S. corporations are hemorrhaging $47 million annually due to employees taking business terminology literally. The study uncovered:
• Marketing departments constructing wooden boxes for "outside the box" brainstorming • IT teams dispatching staff to photograph actual cloud formations • Finance analysts using rulers to measure "bottom lines" on reports
Corporate Countermeasures:
63% of Fortune 500 firms launched jargon training
47% developed internal terminology dictionaries
31% adopted plain language mandates
Linguistic experts warn this communication breakdown reflects growing generational divides in workplace language processing, with digital natives demonstrating markedly more literal PRESS RELEASE interpretations than their predecessors.
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