Show me a workplace in 2012 -- excluding government -- where change rarely disrupts the day's plans, where responses to executive questions and requests take a back seat to everyone's agenda, where reactions to the market center on predetermined calendars and where customer needs are met, but met in due time. If you have trouble conjuring up one, don't be hard on yourself. It doesn't exist.
With e-communication, smartphones and all the other tools of the business trade used today, life as an employee is a busy, constant state of action and reaction. Yet, human resources departments industry-wide and nationwide operate under the assumption that only insiders know the pace at which business is conducted. Those not on their payroll live in another world, a world that cannot possibly resemble the cultural environment of change that they oversee. So, in order to practice full disclosure, they feel compelled to reveal their "secret" to prospective talent via the job descriptions they post.
A position description from any job board or any company career portal that does not include a version of the phrase "fast-paced environment" does not exist. At least I have yet to find one (government sites excluded). Anyone in the midst of a job search will start to gloss over this "de rigeur" bullet found near the top of the qualifications list after reading only five position descriptions. "Fast-paced environment" has become the HR equivalent of "keeping up with the Joneses." Gotta say it 'cause every other company says it. Let's blue pencil it, please, and let some refreshing credibility enter the recruiting process.
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