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 Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images Two former Golden State Warriors employees have sued the NBA franchise, alleging gender, age and race-based discrimination, workplace harassment and retaliation tied to their terminations. — Devon Henderson, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026 As a correspondent for the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), Akiyama was chosen out of his 162 fellow employees who applied to fly to space in celebration of the network’s 40th anniversary. — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026 Uber is also combining more teams and concentrating more employees in hubs like New York and San Francisco. — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026 The cuts will flatten management layers, reducing organizational complexity that was built during a period of rapid growth but is now proving a hurdle to decision-making, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a note to employees on Wednesday. — Akash Sriram, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026 Managers press for specifics when employees speak in generalities. — Harvard Business Review, 2 Sep. 2026 New employees could learn one market deeply instead of starting from zero every week. — Nicholas Cormier, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for employees
workers
Noun
  • Their crabs are steamed, frozen and packed into boxes to be shipped to Sri Lanka, where workers remove the meat by hand.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The payrolls processing firm said firms added 38,000 workers, fewer than the upwardly revised 46,000 in July and below the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 47,000.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
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“Employees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employees. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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