I remember hearing a bunch of buzz words from executives awhile ago. I always thought most of them were meaningless. And for the most part, they are.
There's one though, that's not, and that's synergize. When they talk about synergizing and synergies, you may think it means, “Oh, we should do more teamwork.” It's not that. It's very, very much not that.
It means they're going to buy another business, and then fire positions that exist in both companies (such as firing half the PR staff or anything else that could be 'redundant'). Since they basically always do what the previous company did but with less staff, it's considered quick and easy profit.
And they invented the word “Synergize” to say it, and usually surround it in a lot of other jargon, specifically so during public speaking they can tell investors what they're planning to do without tipping their hands to the workers, so they can work them up till the last moment without warning to avoid decrease in work output which simultaneously prevents employees from being able to prepare.
If they say “there's synergies between two companies between X departments”, that's who's getting on the chopping block.
The fact they're inventing new words just for the point of screwing over workers makes me sick.