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1.
Workers
population whose base their professional activity on the
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are employees that own their means of production (they ‘produce’ with their brain and ‘sell’ brain-hours to the organization) in contrast to manual
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Individuals who routinely identify, process, share, and apply new information and
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such as engineers, academics, architects, lawyers, and scientists whose job is to “think for a living.”
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A person with a specialized skillset e.g. software engineer, architect, financial analyst.
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Knowledge workers
can be seen as people whose work is based on the production of
knowledge
, information processing, and problem solving.
Knowledge workers
are sometimes also referred to as white collar
workers
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