Consulting & Strategy Jargon · Vice President level

"Net new"

"Net new" means genuinely additional, as opposed to recycled, reallocated, or repackaged from something that already exists.

Say this instead: brand new

How "Net new" shows up at work

Shows up in budget negotiations and headcount requests to emphasize that the ask is not hiding inside existing resources. The redundancy is the point: "new" alone no longer convinces anyone in a room full of people who have seen headcount traded between teams.

Buzzword

We need three net new engineers, not a reallocation from the platform team.

Plain English

We need three brand new engineers, not a reallocation from the platform team.

Corporate Rank: Vice President · Category: Consulting & Strategy Jargon

Stop sounding like the buzzword.

Buzzkill highlights "Net new" and 634 other buzzwords in Gmail and LinkedIn, and rewrites them to plain English in one click. Free to try, 100% local.

Add to Chrome, free

More Consulting & Strategy Jargon: Apples to oranges · At a high level · Ballpark · Best-in-breed · Boil it down · Buy-in

All Consulting & Strategy Jargon · The full library · What's your Corporate Rank?