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I started working at age 15 and since then, I've had two personas: workplace me and the real me. Workplace me is witty yet professional. She's cheerful, high-pitched, and tries to enunciate every word ...

Vice President Kamala Harris ruffled some feathers when she appeared to adopt a different tone or accent with a crowd than she had previously during her recent campaign trip to Detroit to talk about ...

We switch between slang, dialect and technical jargon throughout our day – depending on the situation we find ourselves in. It sounds banal, but there’s even a specialist term for this phenomenon: ...

James Felton Keith is CEO at Inclusion Score Inc. and Labor Economist at Keith Institute. His latest book is #DataIsLabor. Last year, during a certification class I taught on the International ...

BROOKLINE, Mass. — In breakrooms and boardrooms across America, women are consciously changing how they talk. A new survey reveals that 82% of working women shift their speaking style when they’re on ...

What exactly is code-switching? Many of us may do it and not even realize it. Others may have never heard this term before, and some others may not acknowledge it as a real thing. Usually groups in ...

Code-switching is described as the ways in which we change how we express ourselves around different groups of people but why do we do it and is it bad? Award-winning speaker, best-selling author and ...

The Penn janitorial employee wipes down your table after you and your friends finish lunch in Houston Market, clearing the mess you left behind. You, seemingly the only one in your group to ...

Constantly adapting your personality at work drains energy. Founders who embrace authenticity thrive. Stop code-switching between "professional you," "boss you," etc. It taxes your brain, hindering ...