The top buzzword of 2021 was Circle Back, and this remains a top submission in corporate comedy show surveys across all industries. buzzword bingo, perhaps because its usually played below the radar of corporate superiors.
Zoom lingo has become the norm, and many are still forgetting that they’re on mute. buzzwords, including a Gore perennial: information superhighway. The goal of the game is to tick off a predetermined number of words in a row and then signal bingo to other players. What are we seeing as of late? Employees are still leveraging, pinging, and synergizing. Buzzword bingo, also known as bullshit bingo, is a bingo-style game where participants prepare bingo cards with buzzwords and tick them off when they are uttered during an event, such as a meeting or speech. Since our start in 2019, we’ve been surveying team members ahead of each of our virtual comedy shows and remote team building activities, asking them what phrases they are ready to retire after hearing them over and over. (Whiskey might help, too. Now that we’re halfway through the year, we thought it was time we touched base with you on the latest overused office terminology. OK, we have all been there, a word emerges from the bowels of a marketing department and within a matter of moments, its everywhere. How to Play Buzzword Bingo Do you attend a lot of boring meetings Heres a fun way to make them more interesting.
This past January, our founder Kevin Hubschmann shared 10 of last year’s most overused workplace phrases in a feature for HRD: 10 annoying office buzzwords to ditch in 2023.
