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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The state dismissed the remaining 37 charges against him, as well as charges against two other store employees, according to court records.
    oregonlive, 9 June 2023
  • Senate Bill 1396, which would require schools to allow time for students and employees to pray and read the Bible on each school day, was also passed by the Senate last month.
    Raja Razek, CNN, 25 May 2023
  • Others shared their cathartic feelings watching a group of Black people stand up for the cruise employee who was attacked by the white boat owners.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The restaurant would typically have four employees on site with a maximum of six at any time.
    Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The story concludes with a reveal that this 2023 Fealty sent this group of employees into the future, wiping their memories in the process.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 29 July 2023
  • At least one former employee submitted a wage complaint against Blue Lemon as well.
    Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Balkan, the book fair organizer from New York state, is a former Scholastic employee.
    Laura Strickler, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Police said the mall was evacuated and first responders helped treat the employees.
    Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
  • In addition, many workers beyond the 110 city employees now devoted to repairs would need to be hired.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Moniruzzaman told Nvidia that the source code was only stored locally on his laptop and not shared with other Nvidia employees.
    Jon Porter, The Verge, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the cost of services such as rent, car insurance and transportation keep rising sharply, in part because of healthy employee wage hikes.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • About 75 employees — roughly a quarter of the company’s workforce — showed up.
    Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In the online process, parents or guardians will select their top three choices and then the district employees will match the families on the waitlists with available VPK seats of their liking.
    Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The company currently has about 325 employees across the country.
    Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • And our new contract continues to reward our employees with the best pay and benefits in our industry.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 9 Aug. 2023
  • One of the newest employees at SpaceX has been described as a child prodigy who skipped elementary school and will graduate from college this week at the tender age of 14.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 12 June 2023
  • At that point, Metro employees had not been trained on how to use Narcan, although law enforcement officers who patrol the system carry the drug.
    Rachel Uranga, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2023

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