What Does It Really Mean to ‘Circle Back’? A GIFtionary for New Grads

Are you in the weeds circling back on deliverables to move the needle on your KPIs? If that sentence was foreign to you, you may be part of the hundreds of thousands of new grads entering the mind-boggling world of corporate jargon for the first time. As tedious as office lingo is, it serves a vital function — and can be used (read: weaponized) to signal competence for new workers looking to prove themselves in the corporate world.