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knowledge worker is anyone who works for a living at
the tasks of developing or using knowledge. For
example, a knowledge worker might be someone who
works at any of the tasks of planning, acquiring,
searching, analyzing, organizing, storing,
programming, distributing, marketing, or otherwise
contributing to the transformation and commerce of
information and those (often the same people) who
work at using the knowledge so produced. A term
first used by Peter Drucker in his 1959 book,
Landmarks of Tomorrow, the knowledge worker includes
those in the information technology fields, such as
programmers, systems analysts, technical writers,
academic professionals, researchers, and so forth.
The term is also frequently used to include people
outside of information technology, such as lawyers,
teachers, scientists of all kinds, and also students
of all kinds. |
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