Synonyms of employees

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• workers
• assistants
• colleagues
• laborers
• jobholders
• associates
• hirelings
• hands
• subordinates
• retainers
• underlings
• coworkers
• yes-men
• cogs
• toilers
• wage earners
• workingmen
• wageworkers
• gandy dancers
• workmen
• workwomen
• workingwomen
• wage slaves
• grubs
• flunkies
• navvies
• jobbers
• hacks
• temps
• temporaries
• drudges
• nine-to-fivers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• employers
• supervisors
• bosses
• superiors
• gaffers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of employees

More damaging, employees gradually learn that raising concerns means navigating the leader's emotional reaction before addressing the actual issue. — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026

Or, that some of those same city employees would set up web cameras so that hundreds of residents could watch the baby falcons grow up in their nest on a ledge outside City Hall. — Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026

Management laid off 17,000 people systemwide — including close to 5,000 employees in South and Central Florida. — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which operates the de Young and Legion of Honor, laid off 12 employees as attendance remained about 20 percent below pre-pandemic levels. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Anaheim may have more fast-food employees because of Disneyland. — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026

The scheduled lockup expiry will enable some employees and early investors who bought pre-IPO to sell, possibly driving the share price further down from its current all-time low. — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

Jeff Dean, a longtime Google employee central to the development of its AI strategy, is meanwhile departing the company to launch a startup, taking several high-profile employees with him. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

The union also says the management company interrogated and surveilled workers during a strike in June, when employees walked out to fight for higher wages and better benefits. — Aki Nace, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026