Timeline for What term describes workers that are not "knowledge workers"?
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| Apr 9, 2014 at 0:54 | comment | added | Terry N | @HenkLangeveld: Agreed, except robots have knowledge too. A robot cannot do anything useful without some concept of the state of the world/reality, which is all knowledge is. | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 16:26 | comment | added | Roddy of the Frozen Peas | One could also argue that a politician is neither. | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 14:17 | comment | added | gerrit | Distinction seems oversimplified. Is an astronaut on an EVA a manual worker or a knowledge worker? I'd argue he or she is both. | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 10:56 | comment | added | Henk Langeveld | @JLG Commonly, the term implies a certain level of knowledge. The ultimate answer to the question would be a robot, working only based on knowledge of others. Every person has knowledge and applies that to the job. | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 6:00 | vote | accept | Pacerier | ||
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| Apr 8, 2014 at 2:44 | comment | added | JLG | If you read the Businessweek article I linked to, you'll see that the author of that piece opines that every worker is a knowledge worker. I think I agree. I guess I don't think there's an exact "opposite" for a knowledge worker. | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 2:36 | comment | added | Pacerier | By manual worker being the opposite of knowledge worker, do you mean that there exists no work which is non-knowledge and non-manual? | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 2:32 | history | answered | JLG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |