We’re torn on the use of ‘emojis’ in business. On the one hand, they perhaps aren’t particularly professional. On the other – language constantly evolves, and there’s a valid argument that with our increasingly text-based communication, there is a need for expressing the nuance of speech. What can feel like a light-hearted comment as you type it could easily be misunderstood by the end-reader, and sparingly-used emoticons can certainly help with that.They’re easy to find on a phone, but on your Windows computer hold down the Windows key and press . (full stop). You’ll get a handy emoticon list to choose from.
The Windows key (centre) – image via Wikipedia
We just suggest avoiding them in a mortgage application.
