corporate ladder
Business advancement path
The corporate ladder is the hierarchy of positions within a company, from entry-level to executive.
To climb the corporate ladder is to advance through promotions and increasing responsibility.
The metaphor emphasizes that progress is vertical and sequential—you move up rung by rung: She worked her way up the corporate ladder over twenty years.
- pecking orderSocial dominance arrangement
- golden parachutesGenerous exit packages for executives
- promotionRank increase or publicity
- career pathProgression through occupations
- chain of commandFormal authority hierarchy
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- office lifecubicle, desk job, desk jobs, office job, full-time job
- business empirestycoon, mogul, magnate, conglomerate, monopoly
corporate ladderlateral movement
Horizontal displacement perpendicular to forward
career plateau · demotion · dead-end job · lateral move · downward mobility
corporate ladderdownshifting
Lowering gear or pace
opting out · simple living · dropping out · gig economy · freelancing
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