Meaning of open-collar | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or pertaining to work that is performed from home, especially by means of the Internet.

idiomatic, informal, not-comparable

Examples

“The white-collar worker and open-collar professional have been imbued from earliest schooling with an individualist, anti-labor organizational ethic. Added to this, the new technologies are being utilized, in some cases, to restore patterns of home work and piece work.”

“In qualitative studies, open-collar workers said they felt they accomplished more because there were fewer interruptions. Employers also find that offering telecommuting positions can give them a recruiting advantage.”

“Far from being some special breed in three-button suits, these hard-working people are blue collar as often as white collar and, increasingly, the open collar workers of the information age.”

CEFR level