Boffins issue a warning to anyone who thinks it's cool to use tiny icons in place of old-fashioned words when communicating with professional contacts PEOPLE who use smiley face emojis in their work ...

A team from the University of Michigan and Cornell University sifted through more than 200 million notes sourced from 1.6 ...

If you have the habit of including a smiley face emoji in your e-mails to your boss to create a positive impression, think twice. (Image: IE) Using a smiley face emoji or similar emoticons in ...

The next time you want to drop a smiley face emoji into a work email, it might be wise to hold back — especially if the sender is someone you haven’t met yet. Citing research, the authors defined ...

Emoji have invaded our texts, Slacks, and even our business emails. But, a new study suggests that including emoji in your work emails may be making you look incompetent. Not ideal, TBH. SEE ALSO: The ...

EVERYONE loves using emojis in their texts to try and describe how they’re really feeling. However, some are a bit more difficult to know how to use them. So, what is the upside-down smiley? Please ...

When someone who usually texts with emojis suddenly goes cold—no faces, no punctuation softeners—the absence becomes its own ...

Although Shigetaka Kurita is often credited as the original emoji creator, the story is more complex and nuanced – and what better time to tell this story than following World Emoji Day, which takes ...

Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. I can’t remember the first time I saw a smiley face emoji. I can remember that I felt a little ...

While you might think that adding a 'smiley' emoji to a work email helps to convey a friendly tone, a new study suggests that the practice could be more of a hindrance than a help. Scientists indicate ...

Signing off an email to a colleague with a chirpy grin might be more contentious than you think. Including smiley faces or similarly perky emojis may undermine information sharing and imply ...

What does the upside-down smiley face mean? The upside-down smiley emoji tends to be used in a sarcastic sense. The emoji is a flipped version of the usual smile face which is one of the most used ...