Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time
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The survey quizzed 1,016 employees in the UK aged 18 to 76, defining the younger generation as those born between 1981 and 2012 and the elders as 1946-1980. Surprisingly, 69 percent of younglings say their colleagues speak in too much jargon at work, while only 38 percent of graybeards have the same misgivings.
This new language barrier may even have dire consequences professionally. With 60 percent of the young'uns saying jargon sounds like another language, 46 percent admitted that misunderstanding certain terms led them to make a mistake at work.
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