workplace

US/ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/

nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,404 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: workplaces

The workplace is wherever somebody does their job. An office, a factory floor, a van, a kitchen table.

The word matters because it is the unit that law applies to, so workplace safety, workplace pensions and workplace bullying are all defined categories. Employers have duties to everybody in one. Its usefulness is that it is neutral about the kind of work, which office or factory would not be. The phrase in the workplace covers whole social questions, as in equality in the workplace.

Definitions of workplace

1nounworkplaceThe place where a person works.B2
“The policy applies to every workplace in the group.”

Where it comes from

From work + place.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 2 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word

workplace in the wild

In most countries, certain types of workplace sexual harassment are illegal as a form of employment discrimination.
Sexual harassment
Going postal is an American English slang phrase referring to becoming extremely angry or uncontrollable, often to the point of violence, and usually in a workplace environment.
Going postal
Between 1970 and 1997, more than 40 people were killed by then-current or former employees in at least 20 incidents of workplace rage.
Going postal
In most cases, workplace bullying is carried out by someone who is in a position of authority over the victim.
Workplace bullying
The development of new communication technologies has led to the development of the virtual workplace and remote work.
Workplace

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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