In Japanese, "office worker" is 会社員 (kaishain). It is a noun.
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会社員 is written in kanji. Romanised as kaishain, it sounds roughly like "kah-ee-shah-ee-n" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam会社員 is romanised as kaishain. Say it roughly like "kah-ee-shah-ee-n" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
会社員 is a neutral, everyday word that works in both casual and polite speech. The level of formality comes from the sentence structure around it, not from the word itself.
会社員 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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