Office speak has evolved to include phrases such as 'deja brew' and 'blue-sky
drinking'

A new survey claims to have unearthed the ten most annoying phrases that have forced their way into offices up and down the country.

TV channel Dave scoured Twitter, canvassed viewers and searched the web to come up with a long list of modern-day office jargon, then put it to the public vote.

Top of Dave's chart came 'social notworking', the term used to describe tracking the action on Facebook and Twitter instead of working. More than a quarter of respondents ranked this their biggest office jargon irk.

Hot on its heels was the phrase 'deja brew', the action of offering a cup of tea to a colleague in the knowledge they have just had one in the hope they will decline.

The research also found that men are more likely to be keen jargon users than women. Only 11pc of women confessed to the offence, while 43pc of the men admitted they were regular culprits.

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Jargon that just missed out on the top ten included 'procaffeinating', which is the use of coffee-making to put off an unappealing task, 'tupperwarfare', the battle for space in the office fridge, and 'velodrones', colleagues who are evangelical about cycling to work.