These 8 expressions can make you sound insensitive at work

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Presented by   With Pride Month around the corner, get ready to see rainbows everywhere. If you're a Lego fan, you might be interested in a newly unveiled set that will soon be available for sale. It features 11 new monochromatic characters with funky hairdos, each representing a color in the Pride flag. This colorful piece of art has a touching back story. Read all about it here. —Liz Segran   co.design How childhood bullying inspired this Lego VP to design an LGBTQ set Lego will start selling a rainbow-colored set in honor of Pride Month on June 1.   tech How ‘Zoom’ became the ‘Kleenex’ of video calling The onomatopoeia of the name Zoom helped turn it into a generic—just like Google is for search.   impact How this Leonardo DiCaprio-backed ‘rewilding’ plan will restore the Galápagos ecosystem By eliminating invasive species and helping animals breed, conservationists hope to make the islands’ flora and fauna more closely resemble what Charles Darwin encountered when he arrived almost two centuries ago.

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work life These 8 expressions can make you sound insensitive at work Especially when working remotely, it’s important to take care with your language, to not be misconstrued.   from the magazine Here’s what’s new at the drive-in The tradition of watching movies from a car saw a revival over the past year—and this time it’s got some new features.   impact We can’t plant our way out of the climate crisis What if planting more trees isn’t the climate solution we want it to be?   remote work Why workers are calling BS on leaders about returning to the office Workforce scholars find that employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office.   co.design Everyone from Gucci to Louis Vuitton is betting big on digital fashion. Here’s why they should proceed with caution Is digital fashion really championing diversity and inclusion?   recommender Time to get rid of your ugly AC: This high-design air conditioner is sleek and powerful Windmill’s window air conditioner has more in common with Apple’s HomePods than the hulking ACs of yore. Even Room Rater would approve.     recommender How 23-year-old Cami Téllez is building Parade underwear into an intimates empire You’ve seen Parade’s colorful underwear on Instagram. Here’s how it became an intimates empire—and our honest review of its products.   NEWS Ryanair’s unexpected layover: What you need to know​​​​​​ Yesterday Ryanair Flight FR4978 took off from Athens, Greece, at 9:29 a.m. local time toward its destination in Vilnius, Lithuania.  But as flight FR4978 was about to exit Belarus airspace, the flight suddenly made a sharp right turn and headed to Minsk, escorted by a MiG-29 fighter sent from the Belarus military.  When it touched down in Minsk, two of its passengers, journalist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend, Sofia Sapega, were promptly escorted off the plane and arrested by Belarusian police.  Protasevich runs the popular Nexta Telegram channel, which played a key role in organizing protests against Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko last year. Global leaders in the U.S. and EU have condemned intercepting the flight as “state terrorism.”     FREE SPONSORED E-BOOK OF THE DAY 105 Ways To Stay Calm, Carry On and De-Stress Your Day Click here to download your free e-book.       Support strength in journalism Join Fast Company Premium for $1   You can update your details here. If you don’t want to receive Compass anymore, unsubscribe here If you were forwarded Compass and like it, subscribe here View this newsletter online 7 World Trade Center, 29th Floor, New York, NY 10007-2195