white collar
Definition
Refers to employees whose job entails, largely or entirely, mental or clerical work, such as in an office. The term white collar work used to characterize non-manual workers, but now it refers to employees or professionals whose work is knowledge intensive, non-routine, and unstructured. Historically, in the West, clerical workers wore white shirt collars but manual workers wore blue. See also blue collar.
white collar is in the HR, Teams, & Training subject.
white collar appears in the definitions of the following terms: middle class, businessman and blue collar
white collar appears in these other term: white collar crime
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