clerical work
Filing and typing
Clerical work is the administrative tasks that keep offices running—filing, typing, data entry, answering phones, maintaining records.
The work is typically routine and requires organizational skills rather than specialized expertise: She started in clerical work before moving into management.
The term can carry connotations of low-level or unglamorous labor.
- secretaryAdministrative office aide
- receptionistVisitor-greeting office worker
- pencil pusherDerogatory term for clerk
- transcriptionistOne who converts audio to text
- data entryRecording information digitally
archivist · telephonist · nine to five · desk job · executive assistant · bookkeeping · administrative · typist · paperwork · paper shuffling · document preparation · record-keeping · clerical · registrar · sticky notes · cataloger · scheduling · personal assistant
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, labor, employee
- bureaucracybureaucracy, bureaucrat, bureaucrats, red tape, civil service
- office lifecubicle, desk job, desk jobs, office job, full-time job
- Office Supportadministrative assistants, filing, data entry, receptionists, front desk
- Student JobsRA, teaching assistant, research assistant, tutor, lab assistant
- workplace termspromotion, raise, bonus, manager, supervisor
clerical workmanual labor
Work done bodily
blue-collar work · fieldwork · factory work · skilled trades · heavy lifting
clerical workleadership
Ability to direct others
strategic planning · directorship · entrepreneurship · senior management · management
clerical workcreative work
Original artistic production
professional practice · intellectual labor · engineering · legal practice · medical practice