white-collar worker

Peter is a blank space to whom any desk jockey can relate, which doesn't take much if you subscribe to the idea of an average-looking white guy as the default white-collar worker.

“Just because you’re a white-collar worker, doesn’t mean you don’t deserve job security,” she said.

Mr. Chen, a white-collar worker in his 30s, managed to scavenge enough cherry tomatoes, meat and greens for about one day, and since then has been ordering grocery deliveries to tide him through the lockdown, which began on Friday.

It might be easy to walk or bike to work downtown if you are a white-collar worker living on Capitol Hill, but it’s not if you live in Auburn.

“We can’t keep just thinking about the white-collar worker who’s going from Claremont, California, to Los Angeles,” said Darren Kettle, chief executive of the Los Angeles area’s Metrolink commuter rail.