The occupation employing the greatest share of American workers is paper pushers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Agriculture is the principal occupation, employing more than three-fifths of the workers.
Data were adjusted for age, gender, marital status (married or other), education (basic or higher), and occupation (employed or unemployed).
Economists expect this trend to continue, perhaps because such occupations employ a more nimble, creative work force.
These are all male dominated occupations, employing fewer than 50,000 women compared to 1.5 million men.
Its study of 29 occupations employing almost a third of the UK's workforce found: 35% of bank and post office clerks have degrees, 10 times the percentage in 1979.
"No one surpassed him," says the Byzantine historian Pachymeres, "in making saddles, bridles, spurs, greaves and helmets; he could hammer, stitch and polish, and in such occupations employed the hours of his leisure from war".
Of the 20 individual occupations employing the largest number of young, college graduates (25 and under), seven typically did not require any type of college degree to be employed.
Articles were included if they investigated the influence of chair modifications as an intervention; participants were in predominantly seated occupations; employed a pre/post design (with or without control or randomising) and if the outcome measure included neuro-musculoskeletal comfort and/or postural alignment.
Occupation status (employed or not employed) was also evaluated.
