Is Your Boss Guilty Of The New Term “Glossing”?
It’s difficult to keep up with all the new phrases that you were hearing at work people. Just the other day somebody said they were going to ping me on a topic. I wasn’t sure what it meant but apparently it means they want to loop me in. Now we have a new term called “glossing”. If you don’t know what that means, join the club, and I will loop you in.
Glossing sounds like a term you were here at a fashion shoot, where the photographer wants some glossing done on their model. You know, to make the photo glossy. That has nothing to do with the new term, which is good I suppose because, who wants to be glossy for work.
What is Glossing?
Most people like having a boss that doesn’t micromanage . . . WORK. However, many workers DO need management to meddle when there’s workplace drama.
There’s a new term called “glossing,” which is “a leader’s failure to address workplace issues and hardships, which prompts employees to coast at work and suppress negative emotions.”
Basically, when bosses fail to address obvious problems, anxieties, and tough times, and instead just convey a fake positivity . . . “glossing over” the underlying issues. (Either between employees, or the employees and the business.)
That kills morale, and makes workers feel detached. It causes the workplace to feel less motivated, and promotes a lazier attitude.
A recent survey found that just 15% of workers believed their employers were candid about workplace and business challenges. And only 23% said that their boss responded constructively when employees voiced concerns.
So, there you have it now you know what glossing means, we hope that you are not a victim of it in your workplace. If you are, now you have a term for it. This is great, because for anybody who has been in the workplace for more than a decade or two, knows the phrase might be new, but, there’s nothing new about what it means at work.
(New York Post / Business Insider)
