(OH.pun-kaw.lur wur.kur)
n.
A person who works at home.
Example Citation:
Home-based entrepreneurship is attracting growing numbers of recruits to its ranks. These "open-collar workers" come from a variety of backgrounds: lifelong entrepreneurs, homemakers, downsized workers, graduate students, stay-at-home parents, homebound disabled people and retirees. But their goals are similar: to be their own bosses, work flexible hours and devote their efforts to projects they love.
— Susan Vaughn, "It's Home Suite Home for Brave Entrepreneurs," Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2001
Earliest Citation:
Organized labor is worried about the millions of new "open collar" workers who will be able to do jobs at home that once required an office setting — that may be about 10 percent of our work force by the year 2000.
— "The Small Issue, the Big Picture," The Washington Post, December 31, 1988
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