The 15 most overused business words

This is for everyone who has ever sat through a meeting, rolling their eyes at people who speak in business jargon (which is probably just about everyone.)

Global Language Monitor recently released their list of the most overused business words of 2013 to Business Etc, by compiling data from websites, blogs, social media and the top 275,000 global media outlets around the world.

The company is known for their annual list of the most common English words.

Workplace jargon – the annoying phrases and words that everyone uses, but no one really knows why – is everywhere, but almost everyone would agree sentences like “Moving forward, we would like to literally use social media content in the cloud for robust and seamless sustainability and to impact big data transparency” makes no sense.

Ask yourself, are you using these words and phrases too often?

1. Content

2. Social media

3. Sustainability

4. Transparency

5. Literally

6. Guru

7. Use/use

8. Robust

9. Ping

10. Big data

11. Nouns used as verbs (to concept, to ballpark, to impact)

12. Seamless

13. Moving forward

14. The cloud

15. Offline