Work emoji meanings: what 💼 💻 📅 and ✅ say at the office
Briefcase is the classic work emoji: the job, business, "heading to the office". Office Worker puts a person behind it, and Technologist is anyone working on a laptop, from developers to remote workers. Office Building means the workplace itself, and Necktie signals formal, corporate or interview mode.
Scheduling lives in Calendar, Spiral Calendar and Tear-Off Calendar; deadlines in Alarm Clock and Hourglass. Email is E-Mail, Incoming Envelope and the inbox / outbox trays. Reports and results use , and ; notes and tasks use Clipboard and Memo.
Handshake means a deal, a partnership or simply "agreed". Hot Beverage is the coffee break and the universal "give me a minute". Light Bulb marks an idea, Bullseye a goal or a target hit, and Rocket a launch.
Emoji reactions for Slack and Teams:
In work chat, emoji reactions often replace short replies. means done or approved, means "I'm looking at it", Saluting Face means "on it" or "yes, boss", is thanks, and is a quick acknowledgement. and celebrate a teammate's win, and or say "agree".
Teams develop their own habits, so watch how colleagues use them before you start. A thumbs-up that reads as friendly in one team can feel curt in another, and some people read alone as dismissive. When in doubt, add a word.
Work from home, Monday and meeting emoji
Remote work has its own set: or for working from home, at the laptop, for calls, and or for a meeting. is the commute and is out of office.
For the feelings work brings, the faces do the talking: and for Monday morning, for a meeting that should have been an email, for melting under deadlines, for the sigh after shipping, and for a full inbox. and together mean the nine-to-five.
Job emoji: people at work
The main profession emoji are here, in their gender-neutral form: construction worker, factory worker, mechanic, health worker, cook, farmer, scientist, teacher, judge, pilot, firefighter, police officer and artist. Most also come in woman and man versions and in five skin tones, which your phone offers with a long-press.
They work well in a LinkedIn headline or Instagram bio to show what you do at a glance: developer, teacher, nurse.
Office symbols you can type as text:
Some office characters are plain text symbols rather than colour emoji, so they work in documents, résumés, forms and plain-text email signatures: and for a phone number, (used for "TEL" in Japan) and for fax, @ for email, for "care of" on an address, and for a number.
Checklists use empty box, checked box, crossed box, and . The outline pictographs come from the old Wingdings and Webdings fonts and were added to Unicode in 2014; they look like icons rather than emoji. and mark a Japanese stock company.
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- Calendar shows July 17 on Apple devices, a date taken from Apple's original iCal icon. That date became World Emoji Day, founded in 2014.
- The gender-neutral Office Worker and Technologist arrived in Emoji 12.1 in 2019; the woman and man versions came three years earlier, in 2016.
- Saluting Face, now a staple "on it" reply in work chats, is fairly new: it was added in Emoji 14.0 in 2021.
- Many outline office pictographs such as entered Unicode in 2014 so that documents written in the Wingdings and Webdings fonts could be preserved as text.
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8How do I copy and paste work emoji?
Click or tap any emoji in the grid above, such as , or , and it is copied. Paste it into Slack, Teams, Outlook, Gmail or a document with CtrlV, CmdV or a long-press.
What is the emoji for work?
Briefcase is the most common work emoji. office worker, laptop and office building are close alternatives depending on whether you mean the job, the person or the place.
Is it ok to use emojis at work?
Usually yes in internal chat, where reactions like save time. Follow your team's habits, use fewer with clients and senior people, and keep them out of formal documents and bad news.
What is a good meeting emoji?
for the invite, or for the meeting itself, for a call and for the start time. is the joke version for a meeting that dragged.
What is the work from home emoji?
There is no single one; people combine or with or . is the shortest and clearest.
What does mean at work?
Saluting Face means "understood, on it" or a playful "yes, boss". It acknowledges a request without needing a reply.
What emoji can I use for email on a resume?
or as emoji, or the text symbols @ and if the file must stay plain text. or work for the phone line and for the location.
Is there a boss emoji?
Not officially. People use office worker, necktie, person in suit levitating, or crown for "boss" in the bragging sense.
