Tag "work-environment" and "job"

Question

The tag work-environment (currently 288 questions) is defined as:

Use this tag if the question is related to the work environment, such as an issue with your boss, your coworkers, or someone you have authority over.

The tag job (currently 11 questions) has no definition.

Can we agree to synonymize those two tags?

If not, can we add a definition to the "job" tag?

Answer 1

As I commented on Upper_Case's answer, we have a third related tag: professionalism. Between that and work-environment, I think job can go.

Out of the three questions that Upper_Case identified, the only one that I think doesn't fit either professionalism or work-environment is How to tell a friend I don't want to continue giving him advice?, which is about trying to help a friend get a job. It's not really about jobs so much as saying-no, which it is already tagged with.

The other two questions:

• How to decline a job offer from a previous employer, without burning bridges?
• How to ask my old boss who started his own company for a job

I think can both be retagged with professionalism, as it describes the sort of impression the OP wants to have on the other person.

Since "getting a job" is not an interpersonal skill, and everything else (in my opinion) can be recategorized as some combination of "in a workplace" or "being professional", I don't think we should keep this tag.

^{(... but if we do decide to keep it, I think it should be renamed to be plural like our other noun tags ;) )}

Answer 2

From a quick survey, it looks to me like the tags are used mostly interchangeably, but not always.

Of the 11 questions tagged with job:

• Six are closed or on hold (so I'm not sure they're great examples of tag use, since the questions are lacking)
• A couple seem synonymous with work-environment, in that they are "on the job" sorts of questions (even if they don't exactly match the tag guidance for work-environment)
• A couple seem to be somewhat related to jobs but are not obvious matches for work-environment as currently described (How to tell a friend I don't want to continue giving him advice?, How to decline a job offer from a previous employer, without burning bridges?, How to ask my old boss who started his own company for a job)

It seems to me that many of the questions tagged with job are mis-tagged (they should have work-environment instead), but that in rare cases work-environment is not appropriate even though questions are related to jobs or professionalism in some way.

I don't know that we should declare that the tags are synonymous (there are at least some cases where job is used and work-environment doesn't quite fit), but job is being used vaguely as a catch-all.

I'm not sure that job is used in a sufficiently consistent way that we can or should attach guidance based on how it's been used so far (for the cases which don't overlap with work-environment), but we can be more prescriptive about how the tag is defined.

So, I'll agree with your second suggestion: we should add tag guidance to job (and all tags, probably, should have some guidance attached). Otherwise we should consider removing the tag altogether.