salarymen
Japanese office workers
Salarymen are white-collar workers in Japan, typically male employees of large corporations who trade long hours and company loyalty for job security and steady advancement.
The term captures a specific postwar Japanese work culture of lifetime employment, after-hours drinking with colleagues, and identity defined by corporate affiliation: The salarymen filed onto the last train home.
The singular is salaryman.
Japan's capital city
Work beyond scheduled hours
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
- overworkedLaboring beyond healthy limits
- exhaustionState of utter depletion
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
dedication · karoshi · all-nighter · deadline · crunch · fatigue
Office work designation
- officeProfessional work location
- suitMatched formal garments
- briefcasePortable document container
- corporationLegally separate business entity
headquarters · management · hierarchy · promotion · meeting · desk · cubicle · department
Tokyo
Japan's capital city
overtime
Work beyond scheduled hours
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
- overworkedLaboring beyond healthy limits
- exhaustionState of utter depletion
stress · dedication · karoshi · all-nighter · deadline · crunch · fatigue
white-collar
Office work designation
corporation · headquarters · management · hierarchy · promotion · meeting · desk · cubicle · department · section
subway
Underground transit passage
platform · straphanger · commute · metro · express · delay · timetable · carriage · terminal
salarymenfreelancers
Self-employed contract workers
entrepreneurs · independent contractors · sole proprietors · business owners · self-employed
salarymendigital nomads
Mobile location-free professionals
bohemians · free spirits · artists · hippies · dropouts
salarymencapitalists
Owners of productive wealth
rentiers · tycoons · industrialists · moguls · investors