'Thinking Outside The Box' Despised By Britain's

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Saturday, November 29, 2008, 2:43

After office politics it is the 'most despised phrases' at workplace that are making news lately. Topping the polls is the phrase "Thinking outside the box" that has topped the polls. According to a survey by YouGov, nearly half of the Britons (49 per cent) believe that the use of such terms is on the increase as employees seek to impress their bosses.

Twenty per cent of people still believe that "buffling" - as the pollsters call it - has had or would have a positive impact on their career, the study found. 46 percent have confessed 'buffle' in their own home and among their friends.

"It's bad enough when people at work talk about 'blue-sky thinking' and 'singing from the same hymn sheet', but now we're starting to use these cliched phrases at home," the Telegraph quoted Zory Radnay-Florian, a spokesman for Ramada Encore hotels, which commissioned the survey of 2,035 adults, as saying.

"Buffling outside of the office could be due in part to the explosion in business reality TV shows, such as Dragons Den, The Apprentice and more recently, Natural Born Sellers, where buffling is commonplace and often positively encouraged among those fighting it out for fame and the best job," the rep added.
The top 20 "buffling" business terms:

1 Thinking outside of the box
2 Touch base
3 At the end of the day
4 Going forward
5 All of it
6 Blue sky thinking
7 Out of the box
8 Credit crunch
9 Heads up
10 Singing from the same hymn sheet
11 Pro-active