Brits fed up with business speak
14 March 2014
Are you ‘thinking outside the box’ in regards to your recruitment process? Have you made sure your candidates are on a ‘level playing field’?
Fri, 14 Mar 2014
Are you ‘thinking outside the box’ in regards to your recruitment process? Have you made sure your candidates are on a ‘level playing field’?
These are just two of the phrases deemed the most hated in a survey conducted by blur Group, the services-commerce platform, which names the top 10 most disliked business phrases.
Brits made their feelings clear and red-flagged the worst offenders:
1. Outside the box
2. Blue sky thinking
3. Run it up the flagpole
4. Brainstorming
5. Level playing field
6. Paradigm
7. Cutting edge
8. Action it
9. Moving forward
10. Roadmap
When it comes to technological phrases, terms such as ‘deployment’, ‘portal’ and ‘elasticity’ are widely understood, if not liked, but people are still unsure on ‘cloud computing’ with 20% of respondents still not fully understanding what it means.
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Are you ‘thinking outside the box’ in regards to your recruitment process? Have you made sure your candidates are on a ‘level playing field’?
These are just two of the phrases deemed the most hated in a survey conducted by blur Group, the services-commerce platform, which names the top 10 most disliked business phrases.
Brits made their feelings clear and red-flagged the worst offenders:
1. Outside the box
2. Blue sky thinking
3. Run it up the flagpole
4. Brainstorming
5. Level playing field
6. Paradigm
7. Cutting edge
8. Action it
9. Moving forward
10. Roadmap
When it comes to technological phrases, terms such as ‘deployment’, ‘portal’ and ‘elasticity’ are widely understood, if not liked, but people are still unsure on ‘cloud computing’ with 20% of respondents still not fully understanding what it means.
• Want to comment on this story? The Comment box is at the bottom of the page. Sorry for the glitch but just scroll right down and share your opinions!
