white-collar workers
Desk job holders
White-collar workers are employees who perform professional, administrative, or clerical work rather than manual labor.
The term evokes the dress shirts traditionally worn in office settings, contrasting with the blue collars of factory uniforms.
White-collar jobs typically involve desk work, management, or specialized knowledge: The layoffs hit white-collar workers in accounting and HR.
The category includes everyone from entry-level clerks to executives.
- office workersIndoor professional employees
- nine to fiveStandard workday timeframe
- salariedPaid fixed regular amount
- cubiclePartitioned office workspace
- managerialOf or relating to oversight
office · bureaucrats · administration · corporate ladder · company man · annual bonus · expense account · clerical · stenographers · human resources · desk job · supervisory · professional · middle management · performance review · executive · organizational skills · office management
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- workforceworkers, employee, employees, labor force, employer
- Americanspresidents, senators, governors, generals, authors
- office lifecubicle, desk job, desk jobs, office job, full-time job
- office workersreceptionist, office workers, office clerk, accountant, administrator
white-collar workersblue-collar workers
Manual labor employees
manual laborers · factory workers · industrial workers · construction workers · tradespeople
white-collar workersworking class
Manual laborers collectively
proletariat · laborers · hourly workers · rank and file · day laborers
white, whiter, whitest, whiten, whiteness, whitening, whitish, collar, collars