Confused by Corporate Jargon? A Survival Guide Is Here to Help

Move the needle. Boil the ocean. Blue-sky thinking. If these phrases have you rolling your eyes or scratching your head, a Los Angeles-based startup says it wants to help.

Haystack, which provides businesses, including BuzzFeed Inc. and NerdWallet Inc., with internal communications software, is readying a tool called Glossary for companies and their workers to demystify corporate jargon.

Glossary comes loaded with industry-specific dictionaries and allows employees to share their own definitions of office lingo. Workers can also upload the meaning of acronyms, buzzwords and ambiguous phrases that populate workplace language to a virtual glossary, either for personal or company-wide reference. The tool is slated to launch on July ...