white-collar worker
Desk job holder
A white-collar worker is someone employed in professional, administrative, or office work rather than manual labor.
The term evokes the dress shirts historically worn in office settings, contrasting with the blue-collar workers in factories and trades.
White-collar work typically involves desks, computers, and paperwork: accountants, managers, and other white-collar workers.
- salarymanJapanese corporate employee
- accountantFinancial records keeper
- cubiclePartitioned office workspace
- career womanFemale dedicated to profession
- middle managementOrganizational layer between leadership, employees
consultant · nine-to-five · lawyer · business ethics · expense account · power lunch · corporate hierarchy · annual review · desk job · salary negotiation · data scientist · software engineer · labor · financial analyst · employee benefits · office · benefits · pension
- workersemployee, employees, laborer, laborers, wage earner
white-collar workerblue-collar worker
Manual labor employee
manual laborer · tradesperson · factory worker · construction worker · industrial worker
white-collar workerworking class
Manual laborers collectively
proletariat · day laborer · hourly worker · rank and file · gig worker
worker, working, workers, worked, workout, workday, workforce, workman, workmen