Corporate jargon starting with O
29 terms of corporate jargon starting with O, from off the shelf to overemployed. On my radar means noticed and not started.
Every term under O
O
- off the shelf
- ready-made
- Bought ready-made, not built for you.
- offboarding
- leaving process
- The process of someone leaving: laptop back, access off.
- office hours
- drop-in time
- Set times when a manager or expert takes questions.
- office politics
- who likes whom
- The power games and alliances behind decisions at work.
- office siren
- office-wear look
- A social media fashion look built on sharp 1990s and 2000s office wear.
- offsite
- meeting somewhere else
- A meeting held away from the office, often a whole day long.
- OKR
- goals with numbers
- Objectives and key results: goals, each with numbers that show progress.
- omnichannel
- every channel
- Selling across shops, web and app as one experience.
- on-brand
- fits our image
- Matches how the company wants to look and sound.
- on my radar
- noticed, not started
- You know the task exists and have not started it.
- on the bench
- between projects
- A consultant or contractor with no client work right now.
- on the same page
- agreed
- Everyone understands the plan the same way, until the minutes go out.
- onboarding
- first weeks
- Getting a new hire set up and trained.
- 1:1
- meeting with your manager
- A regular private meeting with your manager, sometimes on video from the next room.
- onsite
- at the office
- A meeting or day held in person, at the company's own site.
- open door policy
- you can talk to me
- You may walk into a manager's office to raise a problem.
- open plan
- no walls
- An office with desks in one big room and no private space.
- open the kimono
- share the numbers
- Show internal information to an outsider. Many find it offensive, so it's best avoided.
- open to work
- looking for a job
- Looking for a job, and saying so in public.
- optics
- how it looks
- How something will look to others, whatever it is.
- OTE
- pay if you hit target
- On-target earnings: base pay plus the commission you get by hitting quota.
- other duties as assigned
- anything else
- Anything else your manager needs, which slowly becomes the job.
- out of pocket
- unreachable
- Unreachable for a while. In money talk, it means you lost some.
- out of the box
- ready to use
- Working straight away, with no setup.
- outplacement
- job-hunt help
- Help finding a new job, paid for by the employer letting you go.
- overemployed
- two jobs at once
- Secretly holding two or more full-time jobs.
Before O: M and N. After O: P. All letters: corporate jargon.