How to create a new table with the same structure of a specified table?

Suppose you have a table named employee with the following columns:

• employee_id
• last_name
• job_id
• commission_pct
• department_id

And you want to create new table named contract_workers with the same columns as employee table, the fastest way to chieve this is to run the following DDL statement:

CREATE TABLE contract_workers AS (SELECT * FROM employees where 1=2);