The department that turned firing into a growth opportunity.
Key Performance Indicator: a number that determines your worth as a human being every quarter. The corporate equivalent of a video game score, except nobody is having fun and the prizes are just more KPIs.
A life insurance policy taken out by a company on critical employees whose death would cause significant financial loss. Your employer literally betting on how much your demise would cost them.
The process of documenting and sharing expertise from one employee to others, typically when someone leaves. It's the scramble to extract 20 years of wisdom into a PowerPoint deck during someone's last two weeks.