Cringe quiz: Are you fluent in Gen-Z office speak?

Find out how well you understand emojis, slang and reactions that your Generation Z colleagues use.

With boomers, Generation X, millennials and Generation Z all in one workplace and increasingly communicating online, some of the quirkiness of each generation has come to light.

The result: the potential for confusion and misinterpretations of what your colleague is saying, especially as younger workers introduce new lingo and expressions.

Avoiding misinterpretations of text and emojis will only become more important as more young professionals, who grew up communicating digitally, enter the workforce. Gen Z workers — defined as those born between 1997 and 2012 — are expected to more than triple in the United States, Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands and United Kingdom, accounting for 30 percent of total employment by 2030, according to a study by Oxford Economics.

[Gen Z came to ‘slay.’ Their bosses don’t know what that means.]

So let’s put your knowledge to the test. How well do you think you can understand your Gen Z colleagues in the workplace?

Here are six questions based on our conversations with Gen Z workers.