Office Worker 🧑💼
Copy & Meaning
OFFICE WORKER
Office Worker 🧑💼 Emoji Data
| Emoji | 🧑💼 |
|---|---|
| Main Meaning | Office Worker |
| Unicode | U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F4BC
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| Unicode Name | OFFICE WORKER |
Office Worker 🧑💼 Emoji: Meaning & Usage
The office worker emoji, depicting a person in a suit alongside a briefcase. This emoji is used to express office workers, businesspeople, and corporate professionals. Common usage includes 'Office life🧑💼' 'Business person🧑💼' or 'Going to work🧑💼' This is the gender-neutral version. Added in Unicode 12.1 in 2019 as part of the profession emoji series. Office workers (businesspeople) are among the most common professions globally, working at companies in administration, sales, planning, management, and various other roles.
In Japan, they're called 'salaryman' or 'OL' (office lady), with unique labor culture including lifetime employment, new graduate batch hiring, and seniority-based promotion. Recently, work styles have diversified with remote work, telework, side gigs, and work-life balance. The emoji is used in posts about commuting, business trips, meetings, presentations, job changes, promotions, resignations, and retirement. It's also commonly used to express modern workers' emotions like 'hate Mondays' or 'happy Friday.'