Crazy from Mark Zuckerberg metaverse musings to the Mass deportation and muck-created Violence on Twitter2022 has been a tumultuous twelve months for the technology industry.
Along the way, whole new phrases and words that weren’t used or heard in January have slowly crept into our conversation. In the year As we look ahead to 2023, these words may be used again and again as we continue to adapt to the modern – and often fictional – post-pandemic world of work.
In the year Here are all the important tech terms you’ll need to master before 2022 ends and the new year begins.
Tech terms that will grow in popularity in 2022
Stop the silence
The word “Silence Break” It received significant media attention throughout the year after being widely discussed by workers on social media, particularly in the younger millennial and Gen Z circles.
The term refers to the absolute emptiness that your job requires you to do, and nothing else. The opposite of “going above and beyond” at work is perceived by Quiet Keeters as negatively impacting a healthy work-life balance.
Re-employment
Re-enrollment isn’t necessarily a new term – and it probably came up a year ago – but it was approved by Microsoft in September 2022. Job trend indexFor this, 20,000 workers from around the world were surveyed.
A key takeaway from the survey is that employees need to be “re-recruited” to their jobs to ensure they continue to grow and develop within their company.
This effectively means giving employees ample opportunity to expand their skill sets and learn more about the roles and responsibilities they hold. The hope is that giving the workers will help reduce the workload, which has made it difficult for companies to retain workers throughout the year.
Decentralized VPNs
Decentralized VPN – sometimes called dVPN – refers to any VPN A server network does not have centralized control over the individual servers that make up it.
As a famous VPN company Surfshark He said, “Instead of hosting and maintaining a single VPN server, Dvpn servers are hosted by independent users. They may be using dedicated server machines or simply installing DVPN software on their home computers.
Decentralized VPNs have certain advantages, but perhaps the biggest one is that your privacy is protected by the nature of the network infrastructure, rather than your private company’s (i.e. VPN provider) giving their word. It does not record your data.
The “dark matter” of work.
Created by Project management software Supplier Write“Dark matter” works “with synchronous applications and unstructured operations such as instant messaging threads and video calls, as well as unintegrated gaps between systems and applications.”
A dark matter in the workplace is that all the tasks you need to complete in your work day take too long to complete individually, but gradually add up and eat into your time. As mentioned above, the project management provider thinks that the explosion of workplace applications is responsible for the rise of dark matter in the workplace.
Silent shooting
On the contrary, to silence, “Silent Shooting” It is implemented by administrators. Instead of firing an employee outright, during a “quiet fire,” the boss gradually removes one of the employee’s duties until the position becomes obsolete or unnecessary.
Practicing bosses can reassign these tasks to other employees, change the employee’s job description, demote them, or simply block them from expanding their horizons within the company.
If an employee is quietly fired in this way, it will be much more difficult to take legal action against the company than if they were directly fired.
Workfluencer
Workfluencers are basically influencers who create content about their work. Those interested in learning more about the field and what their day-to-day working life is like.
They often make money from brand partnerships like regular influencers and similarly seek engagement from followers but focus their content entirely on the 9-5.
“Workfluencers” have been helped tremendously by changes in business and career apps like LinkedIn, which have borrowed features from major social media sites over the past few years to make their platforms more accessible and usable.
Right now, more than 13 million LinkedIn users have their profiles set to “creative mode,” which, in theory, means more people will see their posts. Like it or not, entrepreneurs are here to stay, and there will probably be more trying their hand in 2023.
MFA exhaustion
MFA fatigue It is a novel hacking technique widely used by actors in 2022, and is believed to be the cause of successful breaches. Uber, Microsoft and Cisco networks.
In MFA fatigue attacks, criminals run a script that attempts to log into the target’s account using stolen credentials with multi-factor authentication. When the script runs, the victim will receive seemingly endless confirmation prompts.
The hackers hope that the victim will be so annoyed by the constant string of notifications that they will finally agree to one of the requests out of frustration. After that, they’ll have access to the account and can wreak whatever havoc they want.
Too much work
Too much work It’s a modern term for someone who multitasks – something we’ve all been experiencing since the post-pandemic recession.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4.9 percent of the 164 million strong U.S. workforce will hold two or more jobs by September 2022, accounting for nearly 8 million people.
Boomerang staff
As the name suggests, boomerang employees are employees who are employed in companies they have previously left, particularly in good conditions (hence the return). An analysis of LinkedIn members’ work histories shows that boomerang workers accounted for 4.3 percent of the U.S. workforce last year.
Some companies are encouraging this practice, establishing other ways to keep in touch with former employees once they leave the office and get them back on the payroll.
However, some research suggests that workers who return to senior positions after leaving may have a negative impact on those in the same roles as their repatriating colleagues.
Ransomware-as-a-service and triple piracy
Ransomware-as-a-service – a play on the popular term “software-as-a-service” – is a term for any ransomware that is commercially available as a “subscription” service that affiliates can use. Tools already developed to carry out their own attacks.
took off Ransomware-as-a-service From “double heist” tactics – encrypting and publishing a victim’s company’s data and threatening to publish it – it has evolved into a triple whammy strategy with many ransomware criminals.
In a triple threat attack, the company’s data is first encrypted (with the risk of deletion) and disclosed (with the risk of publication), all of which the threat actor organizes the third “stage” as a DDoS attack or threatening the company’s customers.
Productivity Paranoia
Productivity paranoia refers to the gap between how productive CEOs, bosses, and managers think their employees are and how productive staff members believe they are.
The difference is strong. As a Microsoft job index A study released this year found that although 87% of employees believe themselves to be effective at work, only 12% of “leaders” believe that their employees use their time effectively.
The paranoia of productivity is perhaps exacerbated by the fact that it is hybrid, dynamic and increasing Remote approaches to workMany bosses feel that it makes them less visible to their team.
Email bankruptcy
Email loss occurs when someone deletes or ignores emails that are older than a certain date or, in extreme cases, abandons their mailbox due to the volume of emails they receive.
Of course, that term is long gone from this year — but given the rise of project management software apps with built-in collaboration tools and business communication platforms like Slack, you’ll likely hear it more in 2023. Around 30% of American adults They have declared email bankruptcy, inboxes are being clogged with spam, junk and marketing emails.
Looking forward to next year
As exciting as it is exhausting, 2022 has left many people working in and around the technology sector with more questions than answers.
Will it be? Mass reduction Have we experienced this year? What cyber threats are being used to target businesses? Will Twitter survive until the end of the year with Musk at the helm, or will Google’s fearsome AI take over the world before we get it?
Regardless of what happens in 2023, we’ll bring you daily updates on the platforms, services and businesses that matter to you.
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