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14-691: Not to be confused with Clerk or Cleric . Clerc [REDACTED] Origin Language(s) French Meaning clerk , scribe Region of origin France Clerc is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Albert Clerc , French chess player Aurélien Clerc , Swiss cyclist François Clerc , French footballer José Luis Clerc , Argentine tennis player Jub Clerc , Australian filmmaker Julien Clerc , French singer Laurent Clerc , teacher, co-founder of

28-743: A character in Sign Gene: The First Deaf Superheroes v t e Surnames associated with the occupation of clerk or scribe Germanic Clark , Clarke , Clarkson , Clerk , Clerke , De Clerck Klerk /Klerck Schreber , Schreiber , Schriever , Schrijver , Schriver , Scrivener , Scriver , Shriver [REDACTED] Romance Clerc , Leclerc , Leclercq Escribá , Escrivá , Scriba Slavic Pisar Pisarek Pisarev Pisarenko Pisarcik Písařík Pysarchuk [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

42-750: A college degree, though some college education or 1 to 2 years in vocational programs are common qualifications. Familiarity with office equipment and certain software programs is also often required. Employers may provide clerical training. In 2006, the median salary for clerks was $ 23,000, while the national median income for workers age 25 or older was $ 33,000. Median salaries ranged from $ 22,770 for general office clerks to $ 34,970 for secretaries and $ 41,030 for administrative supervisors. Clerical workers are considered working class by American sociologists such as William Thompson, Joseph Hickey or James Henslin as they perform highly routinized tasks with relatively little autonomy. Sociologist Dennis Gilbert , argues that

56-449: A key factor in increased life-style related health conditions such as fatigue , obesity , diabetes , hypertension , cancer , and heart disease . Also, working at a computer could potentially lead to diseases associated with monotonous data entry such as carpal tunnel syndrome . Workplace interventions such as alternative activity workstations, sit-stand desks , and promotion of stair use are among measures being implemented to counter

70-462: A majority in industrialized countries due to modernization and outsourcing of manufacturing jobs. The blue-collar and white-collar phrases may no longer be literally accurate, as office attire has broadened beyond a white shirt. Employees in many offices may dress in colourful casual or business casual clothes. In addition, the work tasks have blurred. "White-collar" employees may perform "blue-collar" tasks (or vice versa). An example would be

84-461: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Clerk A clerk is a white-collar worker who conducts record keeping as well as general office tasks, or a worker who performs similar sales-related tasks in a retail environment. The responsibilities of clerical workers commonly include record keeping , filing, staffing service counters, screening callers, and other administrative tasks. In City of London livery companies ,

98-479: Is not clear if sit-stand desks may be effective at reducing sitting in the longer-term. An intervention to encourage office workers to stand and move reduced their sitting time by 22 minutes after 1 year; the effect was 3-times greater when the intervention included a sit-to-stand desk. The intervention also led to small improvements in stress, wellbeing and vigour. Formerly a minority in the agrarian and early industrial societies, white-collar workers have become

112-439: The surname Clerc . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clerc&oldid=1246377089 " Categories : Surnames French-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

126-557: The clerk is the chief executive officer . The word clerk is derived from the Latin clericus meaning " cleric " or " clergyman ", which is the latinisation of the Greek κληρικός ( klērikos ) from a word meaning a "lot" (in the sense of drawing lots) and hence an "apportionment" or "area of land". The association derived from medieval courts, where writing was mainly entrusted to clergy because most laymen could not read. In this context,

140-594: The first school for the deaf in North America Maurice Clerc (mathematician) , French mathematician Maurice Clerc (organist) , French organist Mialitiana Clerc (born 2001), Malagasy alpine skier Onésime Clerc , Swiss born Russian naturalist Vincent Clerc , French rugby union player Fictional characters [ edit ] Jux Clerc , a character in Sign Gene: The First Deaf Superheroes Tom Clerc ,

154-408: The harms of sedentary workplace environments. The quality of evidence used to determine the effectiveness and potential health benefits of many of these interventions is weak. More research is needed to determine which interventions may be effective in the long-term. Low quality evidence indicates that sit-stand desks may reduce sitting in the workplace during the first year of their use; however, it

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168-641: The white dress shirts of male office workers common through most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Western countries, as opposed to the blue overalls worn by many manual laborers. The term "white collar" is credited to Upton Sinclair , an American writer, in relation to contemporary clerical , administrative, and management workers during the 1930s, though references to white-collar work appear as early as 1935. White collar employees are considered highly educated as compared to blue collar. Less physical activity among white-collar workers has been thought to be

182-664: The white and blue collar divide has shifted to a divide between professionals, including some semi-professionals, and routinized white collar workers. White collar office supervisors may be considered lower middle class with some secretaries being located in that part of the socio-economic strata where the working and middle classes overlap. White-collar worker In contrast, blue-collar workers perform manual labor or work in skilled trades ; pink-collar workers work in care, health care, social work, or teaching; and grey-collar jobs combine manual labor and skilled trades with non-manual or managerial duties. The term refers to

196-699: The word clerk meant " scholar ". Even today, the term clerk regular designates a type of cleric (one living life according to a rule ). The cognate terms in some languages, notably Klerk in Dutch, became – at the end of the nineteenth century – restricted to a specific, fairly low rank in the administrative hierarchy. Clerical workers are the largest occupational group in the United States . In 2004, there were 3.1 million general office clerks, 1.5 million office administrative supervisors and 4.1 million secretaries. Clerical occupations often do not require

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