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.
  • 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
  • But what will Murdoch and his employees make of the facts?
    Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Julep hosted its first wedding in 2018 when an employee tied the knot in the bar.
    Brianna Griff, Chron, 14 Feb. 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
  • Longtime employees such as Moreno still work at the store.
    Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 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
  • Those furloughs called for the affected employees to be off work one week out of every four.
    Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Two men dressed in police uniforms sit in the front seats of a Hatchback parked on Palace Road 100 feet away from the employees' entrance of the museum.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 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
  • As the city department with the most employees, the police budget is the largest department budget within the city of Huntsville.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 29 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • One employee spoke up and said an extra day wouldn’t turn around the struggling company.
    Eliza Ronalds-Hannon, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The union claims other Boeing employees reach top pay within five years.
    Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 3 May 2024
  • The company policy was to keep the freezer at least at -10 degrees, the former employee said.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 30 May 2023
  • In the past, something that has also worked has been offering half-days to employees who work during those key holidays.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • One piece of archival footage shows Stewart lambasting an employee behind the scenes for using a paring knife to cut an orange for Easter brunch.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024

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