Poor grammar can hit you hard

“Email correspondence is particularly a problem for many employers because it sets the tone for the culture of the company,” Underhill said.

While employees are often given extensive inductions into company processes,basic grammar and spelling are ignored.

The most common errors by workers while writing emails are mixing up ‘it’s’ and ‘its’,’effects’ and ‘affects’ and ‘which’ and ‘that’.

Putting apostrophes in the plurals of acronyms,for example ‘KPI’s’ instead of ‘KPIs’ was also a common error.

Some erred when switching between singular and plural when referring to company names,for example ‘Westpac are’ instead of ‘Westpac is’.