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Workslop

n. Culture 2025

AI-generated work that looks polished but is hollow, so colleagues have to fix, redo, or decode it. Coined in a 2025 Harvard Business Review piece and named the top workplace trend for 2026 by WORKTECH Academy.

“The project update was eight pages of workslop with no actual dates.”

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Workslop is on the Extended list: builder jargon, industry terms, and newer slang for when you want to go further. It entered common use around 2025.