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Let’s farewell the business buzzwords of 2024

A deep dive into the transformational effect of this year’s corporate clichés.

Whether we like it or not, useless euphemisms and tortuous tautologies have found their place in the workplace.

Karyn Scherer Sun, 29 Dec 2025

As you may have noticed, 2024 has been a ‘challenging’ year. Of course you noticed – you’ve heard it at least 2024 times already. And that’s just in December.

Could ‘challenging’ be the business buzzword of the year? Maybe, but there are so many other contenders that are so much

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Karyn Scherer Sun, 29 Dec 2025
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