12 Business Acronyms You'll Hear at Work — and How to Actually Use Them

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You’re in a meeting. A slide goes up: “We need the KPIs aligned with our OKRs before EOD, and let’s scope the MVP ASAP.” Everyone nods. So you nod too. Half of it you caught; the other half you’ll quietly look up after the call.

It’s not that your English is bad. You can hold a conversation, write an email, explain your work. But corporate English runs on a hidden layer of shorthand that no class ever taught you — initials standing in for whole ideas, dropped into sentences as though everyone was born knowing them.

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12 Business Acronyms You'll Hear at Work — and How to Actually Use Them