'Digital nomads' and 'green collar jobs' confirm business jargon did not go away in 2025

AI has unleashed a fresh slew of new buzzwords we are forced to add to our lexicon, writes John Daly

‘augmented workforce’ is another new buzzword – the hoped-for resulting synergy between AI and humans to boost productivity. 

In the commercial world of 2025, some slang words refused all encouragement to exile themselves permanently to yesterday’s news, so hopefully that will change this year.

Traditional buzzwords like ‘synergy,’ ‘bandwidth’ and ‘circle back’ stuck like barnacles to the office lexicon – joining those other linguistic dinosaurs like ‘leverage’, ‘optimise’, ‘actionable’, ‘revolutionary’ and ‘paradigm’.