Revealed: The popular workplace trends putting your career at risk - so, are you guilty of sending 'spamplications' or producing 'workslop'?

Whether you work in PR, finance or IT, it can be easy to get caught up in workplace trends.

But these could be putting your career at risk, experts have warned.

A team from Kickresume have compiled a list of the most popular workplace buzzwords that reflect the top trends of 2025.

Their analysis reveals that sending ‘spamplications’ – using AI to send out hundreds of CVs - is one of the top trends of last year.

Meanwhile ‘workslop’, which involves using AI to produce low-quality work, could also be putting your career at risk, they said.

‘The workplace buzzwords we’ve seen over the past year each point to a deeper trend that’s shaped 2025', Peter Duris, Co-founder and CEO of Kickresume, said.

‘We’ve seen a rise in “workslop” and using AI to spam hundreds of companies at once with your resume. This suggests that using this technology without care and strategy can hinder more than help.’

So, are you guilty of any of the following trends?

Spamplications

‘Also known as “resume-spamming”, spamplications is another workplace trend on the rise this year,’ the experts said.

‘It refers to using AI to send out hundreds of resumes at once, in the hopes of receiving more job interviews.

‘It might sound like a good idea to get your resume out to as many recruiters as possible—but this could backfire.

‘You might just end up with rejection emails if you’ve not put any thought into your resume.’

Workslop

The team said they are seeing a growing number of working using AI to cut corners – and this can lead to something called workslop.

‘This term refers to low-quality AI-generated work that just leads to more work for the rest of the team,’ they said. ‘If content created by AI isn’t edited properly, the quality usually doesn’t measure up.’

Coffee-badging

This involves clocking into the office, making small talk over a coffee and then disappearing back home to finish off your work there.

‘This is called “coffee-badging” and is a sneaky way to evade a return to office mandate,’ Kickresume said. 'Clocking in to show face and then immediately heading home might land you in trouble if you’re caught.’

Office frogs

People who leap from job to job – like a frog – are the inspiration for this buzzword, the experts said.

‘Changing jobs frequently isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it can just mean that this generation is less likely to stay in a role that doesn’t serve them anymore,’ they explained.

‘As young people are right at the start of their careers, it makes sense for them to hop around a bit to find the right path for them.’

However, they warned that too much job hopping might be a red flag to recruiters as it could indicate a lack of commitment.

Other 2025 workplace buzzwords include ‘microshifting’, which is working in shorter bursts throughout the day and ‘poly-employment’, which is having multiple jobs at once.

Meanwhile ‘ghost vacationing’ is taking unauthorised time off.

Those who go on ‘hush trips’ work on holiday without telling their boss and ‘boreout’ refers to feeling exhausted and demotivated at work.

Finally, the ‘9-9-6 schedule’ means someone starts at 9am and finished at 9pm for six days a week.