employees

noun

variants also employes
plural of employee
as in workers
one who works for another for wages or a salary an employer who was loved and admired by generations of employees

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Recent Examples of employees In Brazil, Statista gathered 900,000 evaluations from employees across a wide range of sectors. — Charlotte Hu, Time, 26 Aug. 2026 The arbitration added more than $200 million in claim payments to the health insurance plan for state employees and families. — Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 His main brush with emergency response appears to have been the department’s response to Hurricane Ian, where employees rebuilt a bridge to Pine Island in just three days and repaired massive cracks in the Sanibel Causeway in just 15 days. — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026 According to court records, the federal government plans to use the facility primarily as office space for DHS employees. — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026 Reports citing former employees have alleged that some of the vehicles displayed were far from production-ready prototypes. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026 Approximately 30 employees were pink slipped on Wednesday, the company confirmed. — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026 Three separate houses are on the property for guests or employees. — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2026 The job oversees more than 8,000 employees and a budget of about $9 billion. — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2026
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workers
Noun
  • At the same time, many of these tech companies, like Microsoft and IBM, have been providing accessible professional certificate programs to workers across the globe in hopes of closing the skills gap.
    — Charlotte Hu, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Chesnot | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images The platform at one point served more than 500,000 workers, also referred to as turkers, according to Amazon.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
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