What ๐งโ๐ผ means
A person in a suit and tie with a briefcase, standing for office jobs, business and corporate life.
People use it for the workday, job interviews, meetings and the commute: โback to the 9 to 5 ๐งโ๐ผโ. It also marks business mode or a professional tone, and shows up in jokes about corporate speak and LinkedIn posts. Pair with ๐ผ ๐ or โ.
Facts
Office worker ๐งโ๐ผ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.1, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins ๐ง person and ๐ผ briefcase. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :office_worker:. People also look for it with words like โarchitectโ, โbusinessโ, โmanagerโ, or โofficeโ.
Made of
๐ง+๐ผ=๐งโ๐ผ
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.1)
- 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.1)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2020
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 12.1