Absenteeism - A habitual pattern of absence from a duty or obligation without good reason. Generally, absenteeism refers to unplanned absences. Absenteeism has been viewed as an indicator of poor individual performance, as well as a breach of an implicit contract between employee and employer

Accidental Death & Dismemberment - the coverage/financial benefits provided when a policyholder accidentally passes away or is dismembered.

Accrued Leave - The number of leave hours that an employee earns according to the benefits and policies of their employer.

Annual Leave - A type of leave that an employee is permitted per year outlined in a company's handbook.

Attrition - The departure of employees from the organization for any reason (voluntary or involuntary), including resignation, termination, death, or retirement.

Baby Boomer - A generation of people born between 1946 and 1964.

Benefits - Incentives for employees that are outside of their pay that may include health insurance, tuition reimbursement, investment options, or paid time off.

Bereavement Leave - Also referred to as 'Compassionate Leave' is a paid time-off category that employees can use following the death of a close friend or family member.

Boomerang Employee - A professional who leaves a company and is rehired later to work in the same or different position.

Career Cushioning - The practice of looking for a new job while employed to soften the financial impact of a job change in the event of being laid off. 

Co-employment - A contractual relationship in which a business and a professional employer organization (PEO) share certain employment responsibilities.

Consultation - A meeting with an expert or professional to seek advice within that individual's expertise.

Continuity of Employment - The length of time employees have worked for their company without taking a break.

Contractor - This is a temporary type of employment with a company that can last between three to twelve months to complete a specific job task. A contractor may be filling in for staff on leave or used to assist with a special project.

Cover Letter - Employees write a letter detailing why they are qualified for the position and their reason for interest in it.

Data - A collection of discrete values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted.

Director - Handles the day-to-day operations, including a company's business and financial operations.

Disciplinary Action- A formal procedure employers take to address employee misconduct or poor performance.

Dismissal - An employee is terminated against their will. A dismissal can occur for various reasons, from performance-related issues to economic problems.

Employee Handbook - Sometimes also known as an employee manual, staff handbook, or company policy manual, is a book given to employees by an employer.

Employment-At-Will - An employer can terminate your contract without giving you a reason. Employers can also change certain terms within your contract, such as benefits, work hours, and compensation, without providing a notice.

Employment Gap - A period during an individual's career where they were not formally employed.

Employment Permit - An employee being granted permission to work in a country different from their native country.

Entry Level - The lowest level in an employment hierarchy. This type of job is usually designed or designated for recent graduates of a given discipline and typically does not require prior experience in the field or profession.

Exempt Employee - Typically salaried or someone exempt from receiving overtime pay.

Exit Interview - A discussion that allows a departing employee and their organization to exchange information, usually on that Employee's last day of work.

Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)- entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons with continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the Employee had not taken Leave. 

Fixed Term Contract - A type of contract where an employee and employer have agreed upon an end date.

Freelancer - A self-employed individual working independently for one or multiple companies. A freelancer typically creates their schedule and sets their own service rate.

Furlough - A temporary leave of employees due to special needs of a company or employer, which may be due to the economic conditions of a specific employer or in society as a whole. This is also referred to as a temporary layoff from work.

Gen X - Generation X or people born between 1965-1980.

Gen Z - Gen Z stands for Generation Z or Zoomer. It refers to the generation after millennials and encompasses anyone born between 1995-2010.

Health Savings Account - A type of savings account that lets you set aside money on a pre-tax basis to pay for qualified medical expenses.

Hiring Manager - An individual in a company responsible for selecting an employee to fill an open position.

Hybrid Work - This is a partly remote setting where half of your job duties are spent in an office setting and the other half are spent in a remote setting.

Independent Contractor - Workers that generally complete tasks for a third-party

Internship - A position where an individual works for a company to gain work experience. Sometimes, this type of position is unpaid.

Job Description - A written narrative that describes the general tasks or other related duties and responsibilities of a position.

Job-Fishing - A fraudulent act used to deceive potential employees by luring them in with descriptions of flexible benefits and high pay to get an employee to work for free and/or disclose sensitive information such as social security numbers and bank information.

Layoff - When a company terminates employment with an employee due to changes made by that company, such as restructuring, mergers, or downsizing. Sometimes, a layoff is temporary.

Loud Quitting - A bold and attention-grabbing departure where individuals express employee discontent or dissatisfaction dramatically and assertively

Manager - A person responsible for controlling or administering all or part of a company or similar organization.

Metrics- The measurement of quantitative assessments commonly used to compare and track performance or production. 

Millennial - Anyone born between 1981 and 1996.

Minimum Wage - The hourly rate employers must pay their employees by law.

Nondisclosure Agreement (NDA) -A legal contract or part of a contract between at least two parties that outlines confidential material, knowledge, or information that the parties wish to share for certain purposes but wish to restrict access.

Non-Exempt Employee - Typically hourly pay or someone eligible to receive overtime pay.

No show - An employee who made a reservation to use an item, room, or resource but does not show up to claim their reserved item.

Notice - An announcement typically written detailing when an employee intends to end their contract / resign from a position.

Offboarding - The process that leads to the formal separation between an employee and a company through resignation, termination, or retirement.

Offer Letter - This document outlines the terms of employment, including the agreed-upon compensation, start date, and or benefits.

Onboarding - The process where a new employee is trained into their position.

Overtime - Work completed outside of an employee's normal working hours.

Parental Leave - A type of leave where an individual is granted time away from work for children typically under 12 for items such as a disability, injury, surgery, or life event.

Part-Time - An employee that works less than 35 hours per week.

Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) - A document typically presented by a manager or supervisor to their direct support that aims to support an individual not currently meeting performance or professional workplace expectations.

Polywork- When people have multiple jobs at once. The distinction is that some employees may have two remote jobs that have the same work hours or an office job and a remote job with the same hours.

Probationary Period - This is a trial period between the employer and employee to ensure the employee will be a good fit. The probationary period can last 3-9 months, depending on the company. The period is also used to train new staff and help them adjust to their position. Benefits and other workplace incentives sometimes do not accrue until after the probationary period.

Productivity - This refers to the amount of work achieved in a workday or over a specific time.

Quiet Firing - A company intentionally giving an employee more work while also reducing, hiding, or limiting access to resources for that specific employee with the intention of the employee to decide to willingly resign from their position.

Quiet Hiring - An informal term for the practice in which an employer fills workforce gaps in ways other than hiring new full-time employees, such as by training or shifting existing employees into different roles or using independent contractors to cover specific roles and responsibilities.

Quiet Quitting - An employee who decides to work within their pay range and job description without going above and beyond or working outside their perception of their job description and pay range.

Rage Applying - The practice of applying for numerous jobs quickly, often with little to no consideration of job qualifications or fit, usually when an individual is unhappy or angry with their current position.

Rage Quitting - When an upset employee quits on the spot without giving any notice.

Resenteesim -The idea of staying in a job that an individual is fundamentally unhappy in due to job security concerns or a lack of better options.

Resume - A document that displays an individual's skills, background, and accomplishments. This is often required when filling out a job application and is typically used to secure employment.

Retaliation - Occurs when an employer (through a manager, supervisor, administrator, or directly) fires an employee or takes any other type of adverse action against an employee for engaging in protected activity.

R.T.O - Return to office.

Separation - When an individual leaves their company. This can be voluntary (i.e., resigning) or involuntary (i.e., being laid off).

Shift Work - This is a fixed or rotating schedule broken up into day, evenings, and night, where employees complete the same job tasks in rotation.

Sourcing - A search for a candidate who can be targeted and convinced to apply for a current or future open position with the company, 

STAR Method - An interview technique that is used for answering behavioral questions

• Situation - Describe the event

• Task - describe what your role was in the situation

• Action - Explain what steps you took to address the situation

• Result - Share the outcome of the event

Strike - This is a refusal to work by the employee or a group of employees to either express a grievance, enforce a demand, protest terms, conditions, or something else outlined in an employee's contract.

Succession Planning - Used by businesses to streamline the process involving a change of leadership or ownership. It involves recognizing internal employees who merit career advancement and training them to assume new roles within the company.

Supervisor - A lower-level management position primarily based on authority over workers or a workplace.

Talent Acquisition - The process of identifying organizational staffing needs, recruiting qualified candidates, and selecting the candidates best suited for the available positions.

Temp (Temporary Employee) - An employee hired short-term and typically while a regular staff member is out on leave from their company.

Temp-To-Hire - An individual who works for a company, in which they were hired through a staffing agency, on the expectation that a full-time position may be open, dependent on budgeting allowances and the quality of work that the temporary employee offers.

Turnover - This is related to employee resignations, layoffs, separations, and discharges initiated by either the employer or employee.

Union (Trade Union) - An organization that advocates for better pay, working conditions, and employee benefits.

Up-skilling - A workplace trend that facilitates continuous learning by providing training programs and development opportunities that expand an employee's abilities and minimize skill gaps

Utilization - This is a percentage that reports on an employee's productivity or billable work. Utilization is also used to determine the number of conference rooms and desks observed in a company.

Video Conferencing - A digital platform where an individual communicates through video. Common video conferencing platforms are Zoom, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Google business, or Slack.

Virtual Assistant - A self-employed worker specializing in offering administrative services to clients from a remote location, usually a home office. Typical tasks a virtual assistant might perform include scheduling appointments, making phone calls, making travel arrangements, and managing email accounts.

Virtual Office - A company that operates as one unit and has a physical mailing address but does not exist in one specific location

WFA - Work from anywhere

WFH - Work from home.

Whistleblower - Someone who reports workplace conditions believed to be unsafe or illegal.

White-Collar - An employee who works in an office or professional setting.

Wrongful Termination -A terminated Employee's claim that the firing breached an employment contract or some public law.

Worker's Compensation - Provides medical expenses, lost wages, and rehabilitation costs to employees injured or that become ill "in the course and scope" of their job.

Work-Life-Balance - The amount of time an individual spends doing their job compared with the amount of time they spend with their family and doing things they enjoy.

Work Station - The specific location and area of where an individual's work is completed or carried out.