‘Let’s circle back’: The most overused email jargon, revealed

“Let’s circle back when we have the bandwidth to touch base on whether we need to hop on a call to tackle the low-hanging fruit.”

(If this corporate buzzword bingo sent a shiver down your spine—apologies.)

In the world of professional communication, business jargon is often a necessary evil. Email clichés: love ‘em or hate ‘em, we all use ‘em.

Many of us are trapped in a terminal cycle of “reaching out” and “circling back” to make sure “we’re aligned.” Recent analysis from email verification company ZeroBounce looked at more than one million real work emails to find out which overused email phrases are the most common offenders.

To no one’s surprise, “reaching out” is the reigning champ with 6,117 appearances, shortly followed by follow-ups of all kinds (“to follow up,” “following up,”