It begs the question why is office slang so widespread when one in four people (24%) admit to having used buzzwords like “square the circle”, “blue sky thinking” or “unstructured data” without being fully sure of their meaning? The least irritating, but commonplace office phrase is asking to “catch up” rather than to discuss - only 2% said this bugs them. The top 15 most common office buzzwords and phrases are: The word 'teasy' is proper and should be used by everyone all of the time - Opinionĭespite one in three (31%) of those surveyed agreeing that office jargon is annoying, almost a quarter (23%) admitted that they used buzzwords daily, and one in fifty confessing to using them every hour!Īdditionally, the survey looked into the jargon that UK workers use most often.Let’s arrange a chemistry meeting (14%).The top 15 most annoying buzzwords and phrases are: Business telecommunications provider, 4Com, has looked into the phenomenon, surveying office workers across the UK to discover the nation’s most irritating office jargon. While there is no ‘I’ in ‘team’, there are three in ‘irritating’ which is how one in three Brits (32%) would describe hearing that cliché at work.īuzzwords and jargon seem to be unavoidable in the modern workplace, no matter how annoying people might find them.
