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Definition: knowledge worker


People who use their brains and not their brawn to earn a living. In the IT field, almost everyone is a knowledge worker, including systems analysts and programmers. Years ago, datacenter operators were a mix of brains and brawn because part of their job was to carry magnetic tapes, disk cartridges and boxes of paper from one place to another. See data library, programmer, systems analyst, business analyst and industry analyst.