Gen Z recently dubbed the thumbs-up emoji as “rude” and “hostile.” Getty Images/iStockphoto “For younger people, the thumbs-up emoji is used to be really passive-aggressive,” a 24-year ...

People are downloading positive, celebratory animated emoji to add to Slack more often than anything else, according to data from Slackmojis.com, the unofficial source for your company's emoji ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

After a few times, the telephone emoji will be enough to get the idea across, and your employees and peers may follow your lead and start using it the same way. 3. When it’s a purely positive ...

Therefore, receiving a positive emoji, or any emoji that makes you happy, has the potential to allow you solve problems in new ways, be more helpful and be a better member of your organization. More ...

💘 Heart with arrow meaning. The Cupid’s heart emoji is mostly used to represent romantic love. When to use: To send extra love to a sweetheart or to use in a flirty text. When to skip: Any ...

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.