service workers

Hired help employees

Service workers are people employed in the service sector—jobs that provide assistance rather than produce goods.

The term covers retail clerks, restaurant staff, hotel employees, healthcare aides, and similar occupations: Service workers bore the brunt of pandemic layoffs.

In web development, a service worker is a script that runs in the background to handle caching, push notifications, and offline functionality.

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occupational hierarchy/class

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Senior corporate officers

corporate executives · CEOs · employers · capitalists · business owners

type of labor

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Employees in manufacturing facilities

industrial workers · assembly line workers · agricultural workers · construction workers · makers

customer interaction

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Employees based elsewhere

office workers · knowledge workers · technicians · administrative staff · analysts

Family

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Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G