desk job

noun

: a job that someone does while sitting at a desk

She left her desk job to become a farmer.

Examples of desk job in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But while a 65-year-old is more likely to apply for a desk job or remote work than something that requires heavy lifting, said Monique Morrissey, a senior economist specializing in retirement security at the Economic Policy Institute, about 50% of older workers still have physically demanding jobs. —

Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024 But new research shows that couldn’t be further from the truth—the youth of today just don’t want a desk job. —

Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024 Written and directed by Ryan Martin Brown, the film stars Colin Burgess as a Brooklyn twentysomething who impulsively quits his desk job. —

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024 Britain’s leading scientific institution, the Royal Society, granted him its highest honor, the Copley Medal, and the Navy rewarded him with a cushy desk job. —

Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024 By book two, The Likeness, he’s been assigned a desk job for breach of duty; instead, his partner, Cassie Maddox, is sent undercover to learn who killed a young girl who bears an uncanny resemblance to her. —

Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024 Ashworth has a desk job, and wants to go and do another desk job. —

Rory Smith, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024 People who have a desk job can leave sneakers by their desk as a reminder to go for a daily walk. —

Crystal Run Healthcare, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024 Propst understood the serious health problems that a sedentary desk job could induce and worked to add movement and flow to the office. —

IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2023

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