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Work can be tough when you’re putting in 110% to smash it with a win-win before close of play – and research from Business telecommunications provider 4Com suggests that hearing office buzzwords all day only makes it worse.
The researchers found that despite a third (31%) of those surveyed agreeing that office jargon is annoying, almost a quarter (23%) admitted that they used buzzwords daily. One in fifty confessing to using them every hour.
The top 15 most annoying buzzwords and phrases and the percentage of people that find them irritating are:
| Most Used buzzwords & phrases | Percent of respondents who dislike these |
| There’s no ‘I’ in ‘team’ | 32% |
| Let’s touch base | 24% |
| Thinking outside the box | 22% |
| 110 percent | 15% |
| I’ll just ping that over | 14% |
| Let’s arrange a chemistry meeting | 14% |
| No brainer | 13% |
| Smashed it | 13% |
| Close of play | 13% |
| Game-changer | 11% |
| Having bandwidth to take on more | 11% |
| Win-win | 11% |
| Run the numbers | 11% |
| Play hardball | 10% |
| It's on my radar | 10% |
Additionally, the survey investigated the jargon that UK workers use most often. The top 15 most common office buzzwords and phrases are:
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