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White-collar worker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term white-collar worker refers to a salaried professional or an educated worker who performs semi-professional office, administrative, and sales coordination tasks, as opposed to a blue-collar ...
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The majority of cases of occupational stress are experienced by white-collar workers. In 1997, close to two-thirds of cases of occupational stress involving days away ... White-collar jobs fall into two broad categories: managerial and professional occupations and technical, sales, and administrative support occupations.
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Jim Pinder lost his job to India before most people had ever heard of ''offshoring." ... But the latest offshoring trend is hitting home in a way the others did not -- sending solidly middle-class, white-collar jobs, with their generous paychecks, overseas.
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Ambitious nations and companies are rushing to claim their share of the US outsourcing pie. ... So, even as US presidential candidates and labor unions bemoan the loss of jobs, there's growing global ability to attract American work. That means it may get even easier and cheaper for US firms to ship jobs overseas.
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"Now white-collar workers are feeling it." ... The number of such jobs now outsourced - from information technology (IT) to architecture - is less than half a percent of the US workforce. But it may grow fast: ... Vote in the MonitorTalk poll: Should US policymakers limit the number of white-collar jobs moving abroad?;
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blue-collar - of or designating manual industrial work or workers ... white-collar - of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers; "the coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper"
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