Grammar In The Workplace

Bad grammar is invading the workplace. It appears to be a growing shift toward informal writing, of internal emails, messages to coworkers and communicate with the public. This is nothing new, people have been known to misuse grammar long before the use of smartphones and social media. The issue comes into play when the English language is misused in the workplace. Nowadays it’s easy to get trapped into the writing styles used in social media or texting because we spend a lot of time texting and tweeting, nevertheless, we must learn to turn it off when at work. Many can argue both sides of the issue, but it largely depends on what you define as a “misuse”.

Unfortunately, these days not very helpful information is available on what is and isn’t acceptable at work. Personally, I think correcting employees on writing in front of others is poor management. For one thing, it leads to division within the workplace and can cause many issues among employees. For anyone that wants to have a meaningful career should know or learn how to write in corporate America. I would like to provide some information on what really matters in the workplace and what shouldn’t bother worrying about. …show more content…
Should be written with the assumption that everyone you work with will be viewing this or anyone interested in hiring you will see what you have written. Business writing is about clearly communicating, not always following grammar rules. It should still contain grammatically correct language, as for typos they tend to happen all the time.
Be mindful of grammar even on internal emails, messages, and documents are consisted as an internal document, that can be forwarded to anyone. I would treat it in the same matter as the social media content for