knowledge work

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Work that depends on the knowledge and thinking skills of the practitioner, such as medicine, programming, design, architecture, accounting, law, etc.

Word forms

knowledge work

Etymology

Coined by Peter Drucker in 1959.

Related words

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