office worker

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The average office worker spends roughly 28% of the workweek reading and answering email, according to a 2012 study.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

When factories automated in the 1990s, an assembly-line employee could be retrained as an office worker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Born in Macroom, County Cork, he had a comfortable upbringing as the son of an accountant and a retired office worker, according to a profile by The Times newspaper's Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

“We weren’t planning to replace anything this year,” said a 41-year-old office worker in eastern China who recently upgraded her refrigerator using a local trade-in subsidy.

From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025

That day one other office worker, the stenographer, appeared.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole