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White-collar workers have now become an independent professional class, showing some distinctive social characteristics. Taking Shanghai white-collar workers as an example, we can summarize the following basic characteristics of domestic white-collar workers:
1, pursuing diversity and high-quality life
The main class of white-collar workers is people aged 25-40. Many people's ideas, values and outlook on life were formed after the reform and opening up. For these white-collar workers, high-paying job opportunities are as important as a high-quality lifestyle. White-collar workers like diversified life forms, constantly looking for new fashions, and expressing their pursuit of quality of life through their own clothes and housing.
2. High mobility of occupation
White-collar workers have good educational background and work experience, and have more choices than other social classes, which creates conditions for their own "mobility".
A survey shows that in some highly mobile industries, such as IT, advertising, consulting, etc. The proportion of young white-collar job-hopping exceeds 20%. In March this year, CIIC Shanghai Company surveyed more than 5,000 employees working in foreign companies. These employees all had the experience of leaving their jobs in 2003. The survey found that the proportion of individuals who voluntarily resigned was as high as 67%, while only 12% and 1 1% were dismissed by the company and terminated their contracts naturally.
3. Strong pragmatic spirit.
For white-collar workers, in real life, they are more concerned about how to get more benefits and opportunities. Compared with other parts of China, Shanghai white-collar workers are more concerned about the financial and real estate markets, such as exchange rate or stock market fluctuations. Because these changes are directly related to their own economic interests.
This pragmatic value orientation runs through the life attitude of white-collar workers. Among the white-collar workers in Shanghai, there are many people who invest in real estate and buy and sell foreign exchange, government bonds and funds. In the past two years, a large number of financial media have met the needs of white-collar workers.
4. Pay attention to personal career development.
A survey shows that when Shanghai white-collar workers choose a career, their career development prospects become the decisive factor, followed by salary and benefits. The first concern of white-collar job seekers is whether they can give full play to their personal advantages and abilities and whether they are conducive to their future career development. At the same time, a number of career consulting institutions have emerged in Shanghai, which have solved the demand of white-collar workers for career development services to some extent.
5. There is a general sense of tension and anxiety.
This is a prominent feature of the white-collar class. In the professional field of white-collar workers, the competition for most positions is very fierce. Today's high-paying job may become worthless tomorrow because of a new personnel change or a change in the industry.
6. Have a sense of social responsibility
This is a new feature of the white-collar class. In the constant pursuit of material benefits, some white-collar workers are full of the pursuit of social responsibility. According to the person in charge of an international volunteer organization, most of its volunteers are managers and professionals of major companies in Shanghai. As volunteers, these white-collar workers help students at school through speeches, introductions and other means.
Extended data:
Other "collar" categories:
1, golden collar
The golden collar class is a class with a high concentration of social elites, aged between 25 and 45. Well-educated, with certain work experience, business planning ability, professional skills and certain social relations resources, the annual income is between 6.5438+0.5 million and 400,000. This class does not necessarily have the ownership of the means of production, but it has the most important technology and management rights of a company.
Generally, the golden collar class is the senior managers of foreign-funded enterprises, the Chinese representatives of foreign-funded institutions in China, the managers of large private companies and the senior leaders of state-owned enterprises.
2, blue collar
Blue collar is divided into: sharp blue, plain blue and dark blue. Refers to the working class engaged in skilled manual labor, most of whom wear uniforms. Generally, blue and dark blue are engaged in manual labor, while sharp blue is an intermediate transitional class, which may change to white-collar workers. Deep blue refers to talents with strong professional skills and outstanding professional ability in a certain field.
3. Gray collar
"Grey collar" is a staff member with strong theoretical knowledge and hands-on operation ability. Simply put, it is a person who can think and do things. People engaged in these industries often have higher academic qualifications, and at the same time, they are down-to-earth and start from practice. If they do not aim high and settle down, they often have great development potential.
4. Pink collar
﹙Pink—collarworker﹚ is a word in the category of exotic lifestyle. Pink collar refers to freelancers who work from home. They can sleep late and eat at noon without being too particular. Home is both their habitat and their workplace. They communicate with the outside world by computer, telephone and fax, and know little about many stressful ways of the world in the white-collar working environment.
5. Green collar
Green collar refers to people who are engaged in environmental sanitation, environmental protection, agricultural scientific research, forest protection and greening, and people who like to dream of outdoor and Shan Ye. Although the green collar depends on mountains and rivers, to enjoy the top green collar life, you must have a certain blue collar physique and white collar knowledge, so that the green collar can create a green life through blue sky, white clouds and golden sunshine.
6. Black collar
Black collar is a name for people who work in government departments or state-owned monopoly enterprises in China and have high economic and political status. Their economic feature is that they can share economic benefits from public power or monopoly power of monopoly enterprises. The employment of children with black collar often depends on their parents' energy, which makes the identity of children with black collar hereditary to some extent.
Another explanation, generally referring to the public security inspection law, is that ICBC tax enterprises and institutions do not live in ordinary houses, take ordinary cars, ignore ordinary people, give ordinary face, do ordinary things, smoke ordinary cigarettes, eat ordinary meals, drink ordinary wine, sleep with ordinary women, make unusual mistakes, report unusual sales, take unusual money, violate unusual discipline and violate unusual rules.
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