salary man
Office desk dweller
A salaryman is a white-collar worker in Japan, typically a male office employee committed to a single company for most of his career.
The term evokes long hours, loyalty to the firm, and the conformist culture of Japanese corporate life: The train was packed with salarymen heading home after midnight.
Sometimes used in English to describe similar work cultures elsewhere.
- officeProfessional work location
- white collarOffice worker category
- commuteRegular work travel
- briefcasePortable document container
- business cardPrinted contact information slip
suit · tie · dress code · overtime · cubicle · nine to five · train · Tokyo · last train · exhaustion · corporate · desk · paycheck · subway · hierarchy · promotion · workaholic · work life balance
- Japanese wordsanime, bento, bonsai, futon, geisha
- Heisei Japanbubble burst, deflation, economic stagnation, Fukushima, Shinzo Abe
- Japanglishsalaryman, skinship, high tension, front glass, coin laundry
- JapanTokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Mount Fuji, Hokkaido
- Showa JapanHirohito, Emperor Hirohito, Imperial Japan, Tokyo, Tojo
salary manentrepreneur
One who starts businesses
freelancer · self-employed · business owner · independent contractor · gig worker
salary manbohemian
Artistic nonconformist type
free spirit · nonconformist · digital nomad · dropout · hippie
salary mancapitalist
Private ownership supporter
tycoon · business magnate · mogul · industrialist · investor
salary, man, salaries, salaried, manly, manliness, manhood, mankind, manpower