How to Use employee in a Sentence

employee

noun
  • A good boss listens to his employees.
  • The company has more than 2,000 employees worldwide.
  • Longtime employees such as Moreno still work at the store.
    Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • Kinsella and eight other gas company employees on the ground escaped unharmed.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
  • Burnout, fueled in part by the app, helped inspire some employees to unionize, beginning in 2021.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2024
  • This would be determined by averaging the employee’s tips and wages paid during the payroll period.
    Madeline Armstrong | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Aug. 2024
  • High product return rates, exceptionally high employee turnover, and a lot of financial question marks would follow.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
  • Herman is a former employee at Woods' restaurant in Jupiter, Florida.
    Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 6 May 2023
  • People in leadership at the company were sleeping with employees and performers, performers were sleeping with guests.
    Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023
  • This news, reported by The Verge, comes along with reports that Sonos is also laying off 100 employees.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The bees were finally shook loose of the plane after airport employees conducted a pushback using ground safety equipment, according to Delta.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 5 May 2023
  • And breaking into companies is still relatively easy, with more hackers gaining access simply by stealing an employee's password.
    Sam Sabin, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The suit said William Mejia tried to upright the stretcher and yelled at the employees to help him.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • At 67%, employees are more trusting, but the gap for both groups has grown in the past few years.
    Nick Rockel, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • By the end of the decade, employees over 55 will make up 25% of the workforce, per Bain & Company.
    Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • With more than 5,000 employees, the total number of cuts will be in the hundreds.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The employee had fallen from a moving golf cart and hit her head.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 9 June 2024
  • The employee has been fired and is not allowed on campus, the letter states.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 May 2024
  • The man killed in the shooting was an employee of the business, according to the release from Metro ABC.
    Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2024
  • When he’s done, cemetery employees will haul the slabs across the grounds to install them at the veterans’ graves.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
  • But a few savvy Kenner employees saved some of the prototypes and took them home.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2024
  • Two-thirds of IRS employees would face furloughs at the height of tax filing season.
    Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Plant employees also receive a coupon for a free Chick-fil-A sandwich once a year, the worker said.
    Laura Strickler, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The phones started ringing, with offers to poach employees and clients.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • Sometimes the Fire Department must wait for a human employee to arrive and move the car.
    Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
  • Senate sergeant-at-arms employees acting as bailiffs will collect the votes.
    Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • As Jules Winfield might note, that’s just employees getting their hands wet.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 July 2024
  • But in this case, the employee retention tax credit appears to have few friends left on Capitol Hill.
    Kevin Freking and Fatima Hussein The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 28 Jan. 2024
  • In the first year, the Ohio facility will have around 20 to 25 employees, a figure that Eleiter expects will grow over time.
    Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 16 July 2024
  • The union claims other Boeing employees reach top pay within five years.
    Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 3 May 2024

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