{"id":5034,"date":"2012-03-02T15:26:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T21:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=5034"},"modified":"2012-03-02T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T21:26:03","slug":"why-oklahomas-workforce-is-a-lot-like-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/03\/02\/why-oklahomas-workforce-is-a-lot-like-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Oklahoma\u2019s Workforce is a Lot Like \u2018The Office\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5035\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/kevinmalone.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5035\" title=\"Kevin Malone, a character from &quot;The Office&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/kevinmalone-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">NBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Job-wise, the Sooner State might make a good stand-in for a certain Pennsylvania paper company.<\/p><p>Office and administrative support occupations are the No. 1 employment category in Oklahoma, according to 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/oes\/oes_dl.htm\">estimates<\/a> from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p><p>In fact, there\u2019s a good chance you\u2019re reading this from your office job right now.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>More than 257,000 Oklahomans \u2014 or about 17 percent of the workforce \u2014 have office-related jobs, a expansive employment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/soc\/2010\/soc430000.htm\">category<\/a> that includes straightforward titles like clerks, secretaries and customer service representatives, as well as more esoteric occupations like gaming cage workers, meter readers and emergency dispatchers.<\/p><p>Sales-related jobs \u2014 you know, the Dwight Schrutes \u2014 are the second biggest employment category in Oklahoma, followed by food preparation and serving, the data show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job-wise, the Sooner State might make a good stand-in for a certain Pennsylvania paper company.Office and administrative support occupations are the No. 1 employment category in Oklahoma, according to 2010 estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.In fact, there\u2019s a good chance you\u2019re reading this from your office job right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":5036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300],"tags":[327],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5041,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034\/revisions\/5041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}