Management and Labour (vocabulary)

staff - employee - workforce - personnel - payroll - shopfloor - while-collar - blue-collar - management - labour = People working for a company are referred to as its workforce, employees, staff, or personnel are on its payroll.

In some contexts, especially more conservative ones, employees and workforce refer to those working on the shopfloor of a factory actually making things. Similarly, staff is sometimes used to refer only to managers and office-based workers.

This traditional division is also found in the expressions while-collar and blue-collar.

Another traditional division is that between management and labour.

Fonte: Key words in Business - Harper Collins Publishers