
Grey-collar worker refers to a skilled technician, typically someone who is both white and blue collar, i.e., Information Technology workers. They are principally white collar, but perform blue collar tasks with some regularity.
“灰领”工人(grey-collar worker)指业务熟练的技术工人,尤指那些兼具白领和蓝领工作性质的行业从业人员,比如IT(信息技术)业工作人员。他们本质上是白领,但经常会做一些蓝领性质的工作。
Yellow-collar worker is people in the creative field, namely photographers, filmmakers, etc. They may spend time doing both white and blue collar tasks as well as tasks outside either category.
“黄领”工人(yellow-collar worker)则指创意产业的工作人员,比如摄影师、电影制作人等等。他们有时候可能在做白领和蓝领性质的工作,而有时候干的活却不属于任何一个“领”域。
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“红领”:red-collar worker。红领是指国家公职人员,也就是我国党群机关、行政机关和社会团体中由国家财政负担工资和福利的工作人员。
A green-collar worker is a worker who is employed in the environmental sectors of the economy. Green collar workers include professionals such as environmental consultants, environmental or biological systems engineers, green building architects, solar energy and wind energy engineers and installers, green vehicle engineers, "green business" owners, and so on.
绿领工人就是受雇于环保经济产业的工人。绿领工人从事的职业包括环境咨询师,环境或生物系统工程师,绿色建筑师,太阳能和风能工程师及安装师,绿色机动车工程师,“绿色商业”老板,等等。
另外还有Open-collar worker(字面意思为“开领工人”)指把家当办公室,在家里上班的人,即“自由职业者”——做自己的老板,工作时间灵活,还能花精力做自己喜欢的事情
