As football season heats up, we pause today to recognize all the football-related expressions in the workplace. We ask employees to “quarterback” a project. We develop a “game plan” for the big meeting. We praise workers who are “on the ball.” But as a new court ruling shows, supervisors who misuse sports analogies at work could find themselves benched in a federal courtroom ...
Timeout! Don’t let sports analogies penalize you in court
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