office workers
Cubicle-bound employees
Office workers are people employed in administrative, clerical, or professional jobs performed at desks in commercial buildings rather than in factories, fields, or other manual labor settings.
The term encompasses everyone from receptionists to executives, unified by the shared environment of cubicles, computers, and fluorescent lighting: Office workers flooded the sidewalks at lunch hour.
- clerksAdministrative office employees
- secretariesOffice administrative assistants
- typistsThose who keyboard professionally
- typewritingProducing text mechanically
- receptionistsStaff who greet visitors
clerical · desk jobs · support staff · white collar · stenographers · administrative staff · telecommuting · casual Friday · dress code · corporate ladder · cubicles · 9-to-5 · open-plan · desk job · water cooler · water cooler talk · coffee break · bureaucracy
- middle classteachers, nurses, secretaries, bank tellers, bookkeepers
- workersemployee, employees, laborer, laborers, wage earner
- office lifecubicle, desk job, desk jobs, full-time job, nine-to-five
- government workerscivil servants, civil servant, bureaucrat, federal employees, state employees
- office workersreceptionist, accountant, administrator, clerks, assistant
- captive audiencesprisoners, dentist chair, barber chair
office workersfield workers
Agricultural labor force
construction workers · loggers · fishermen · miners · landscapers
office workersmanual laborers
Workers using physical effort
blue-collar workers · factory workers · industrial workers · tradespeople · machinists
office workersfreelancers
Self-employed contract workers
independent contractors · gig workers · entrepreneurs · day laborers · digital nomads
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