Are all employees knowledge workers?

In the 21st century, according to Playfoot ,on his research conducted on 2007, there are competencies and skills that every employee needs to survive and thrive in the modern workplace. Employees need hard skills, contextual knowledge, and practical experience to do many jobs. However, a greater focus is now being placed on behaviors. It is becoming increasingly important for workers to have the right attitude, a willingness and ability to learn and an understanding of how to conduct themselves in the workplace. Beyond these ,there are set of transferable qualities these include problem solving skills, creativity, innovations, trust ,ability to lead and manage others, ability to multi task, initiative, accepting of responsibility, embracing teamwork, awareness of sustainability empathy, ability to communicate, manner and cultural sensitivity above all employees must have the ability to learn.

I believe that all employees have the potential to be knowledge workers. Every employee from the bottom of the organization to the top positions has the capacity to be knowledge workers. When an applicant gets hired in a certain company, assumingly, it has been hired for the reason that he is the most qualified for the job amongst the other applicants for that matter and therefore it is considerably that the certain employee will contribute to the growth of the company .Every employee has its own job descriptions .Job descriptions would define their work . Starting from the very first day of employment, wherein every employee get to be acquainted to the workplace and to the other employees ,the vision and mission of that certain workplace and every employee need to work for that common goal and that is to be a factor in the growth and expansion of the company. From that day and onwards he will qualified to be called a knowledge worker.