A recent study revealed that swearing in the office relieves stress and is good for workers and bosses.

Professor Yehuda Baruch from the University of East Anglia oversaw the survey of around 100 people in Britain and the U.S. said that foul language creates a good team spirit, allows staff to vent frustrations and cements relationships.

"Employees use swearing on a continuous basis but not necessarily in a negative, abusive manner," said Baruch adding that the study also showed that women swore more than expected, especially among themselves.

"Swearing is used as a social phenomenon to reflect solidarity and enhance group cohesiveness or as a psychological phenomenon to release stress," Baruch said. "The primary issue for management is whether or not to apply a tolerant leadership culture to the workplace and deliberately allow swearing."

The university professor added that a ban on swearing would be bad for motivation and morale in most firms, though stressing however, that abusive and offensive swearing caused stress and should be stamped out.

"Managers need to understand how their staff feel about swearing," Baruch pointed out. "The challenge is to master the art of knowing when to turn a blind eye."