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 The program—announced at the Ai Everything conference in the capital–will give government employees hands-on experience with tools such as ChatGPT, Codex, and Microsoft 365 Copilot. — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026 Keith David, Macon Blair, Killer Mike, Cody Lightning, Siena East, and Michael Hitchcock all return as some of Lee’s Tulsa-area buddies, employees, and resentful acquaintances. — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026 Netflix is laying off around 1,000 employees, around 6% of its workforce, in what marks the company’s largest axing to date. — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026 Netflix had roughly 16,000 full-time employees as of December 2025, according to a securities filing. — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 One of the ways Rokt does this is by expanding the variety of work its employees can do using AI. — Connor Greene, Time, 14 Oct. 2026 The governor’s office said that education would be suspended for a day on Thursday, and state employees with disabilities and mothers with young children would be placed on leave. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 All other employees criticized in the investigation, including one accused of trying to steer business to a vendor, no longer work for the district. — Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2026 Norma Mitchell, cofounder of the business and grandmother of its current top executives, died of the disease, and many other family members, employees and customers have been touched by it. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
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workers
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  • Conflict-of-interest rules may bar some workers and their families from holding certain stocks; the Treasury has moved to ban ESG funds from accounts, but there’s no way for people to keep certain stocks out of their kids’ accounts.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
  • His father, Amin Mia, 26, said no health workers came to their remote village in Sylhet to offer vaccinations in time.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of workers

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