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
“I’m not cutting spending to zero,” said Li Wenming, a 34-year-old office worker in Shanghai.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 15, 2025
A typical office worker was getting interrupted by various media stimulation every three minutes in 2004, according to research by Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California at Irvine.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
