How to say "workplace" in Japanese

• 職場しょくばCommon
  nounCovers one's own post or place of work — the everyday word for the workplace where you are employed, as in conversations about colleagues, bosses, or life at work.
  私は職場しょくばから１時間じかんの所ところに住すんでいる。↗

  I live an hour away from work.
• 勤務場所きんむばしょ
  nounA neutral way to say the place where one works, often used when stating or asking where someone's workplace is, as on forms or in official contexts.
• 事業場じぎょうじょう
  nounRefers to a business establishment such as an office or factory as an organizational unit, mainly in legal, administrative, or business writing rather than everyday talk.
• 作業現場さぎょうげんば
  no-adjectivePoints to the physical site where work is actually carried out, such as a construction or factory job site, rather than the workplace in the general sense of one's employer.
• 会所かいしょ
  nounAn Edo-period term for a workplace or office; it is a historical word and is seldom the word you want for the modern sense of 'workplace'.

Use 職場 for one's own workplace in everyday contexts; 勤務場所 for the place of work neutrally, 作業現場 for physical job sites, 事業場 for business establishments, and avoid 会所 as an Edo-period term.

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• 職場しょくばone's post
• 勤務場所きんむばしょworkplace
• 事業場じぎょうじょうworkplace
• 作業現場さぎょうげんばjob site
• 会所かいしょworkplace (Edo period)