Multi-task

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Middle-management jargon which means to “browse the internet”. What most people do during most all-hands conference calls and the brazen do during meetings.

Hence the catch-all when you are caught by a colleague going crazy Ivan on you at the bottom of the hour: “Sorry I was multi-tasking on mute”.

See also

• Conference call anatomy
• Meeting (not “meet”)