Emails chock full of bullets and emojis, “delving” and “pivotal” galore—you’re not imagining it—your coworker has
hit you with “workslop.”Stanford professor Jeff Hancock and BetterUp Chief Scientist Kate Niederhoffer were on a team that coined the evocative term in fall 2025, just before Merriam-Webster chose “slop&rd
quo; as the dictionary’s word of the year.And don’t expect orderly inboxes or chat windows any time soon, they said. “We’re going to see, potentially, a worsening, because it takes
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