Quotation of the Day for November 18, 2015
"Corporate-ese usually likes to put a cheery, productive spin on things. You're not forced to do several things at once - even though what you really need is to concentrate on a single project. But ever since the downsizing, you don't have a choice in the matter. Oh, no. You're just multitasking. That's just best practices, right? Now an equally chilling term has come down from the head office of language abuse/truth evasion: multiskilling. BusinessDictionary.com defines it as "the training of a single employee in multiple skill-sets." In other words, getting one person to do what used to be more than one person's job. This noxious euphemism is weaselling its way into everyday language. Overburdened? Overloaded? You don't get to complain when you're multiskilled."
- Dave McGinn, writing in The Globe and Mail, November 16, 2015.
Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 16, 2015
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