""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.""
""Language habits are some of the hardest to change," Liviu Tanase, founder and CEO of ZeroBounce, told Fast Company."
""Even with smart AI tools embedded in our inboxes, people still fall back on familiar phrases because they feel safe and sometimes, we don't know what else to say.""
Business email language is saturated with recurring corporate phrases such as "reaching out," follow-up variants, and formulaic greetings like "hope you're doing well." More than one million real work emails show "reaching out" appearing 6,117 times and follow-up phrases totaling 5,755 mentions. Nearly 3,000 emails began with versions of "hope." Other frequent terms include "Happy Friday," "touch base," "hop on a call," "bandwidth," and "low-hanging fruit." Familiar phrasing persists because it feels safe and writers often lack alternatives, even as Gen Z increasingly uses memes, emojis, slang, and abbreviations.
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