[cormacrelf]

There was a great piece on this yesterday by Molly Young. In my opinion, it was significantly better. It contained this excellent point:

> As the leaked Slacks make clear, Korey, as well as her employees, were working under the new conditions of surveillance-state capitalism (or, from the company’s perspective, a culture of “inclusion and transparency”). One reason for the uptick in garbage language is exactly this sense of nonstop supervision. Employers can read emails and track keystrokes and monitor locations and clock the amount of time their employees spend noodling on Twitter. In an environment of constant auditing, it’s safer to use words that signify nothing and can be stretched to mean anything, just in case you’re caught and required to defend yourself.

https://www.thecut.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.htm...

[lonelappde]

And this has always been true in PR and board room battles, but now is seeping to everwhere. Perhaps the rank and file will start to understand how execs and politicians have always suffered from the microscope.