| A 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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