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The hand that signs your check and quietly owns your weekday selves.
means The person, company, or organization that hires you and pays you to work for them.
from From the verb 'employ,' which entered English from the French 'employer,' itself descended from the Latin 'implicare' — literally 'to fold in, to enfold or entangle.' The same root gives us 'implicate' and 'imply.' So buried in the word is the old sense of being folded into something: an employer is, quite literally, the one who wraps you up in their enterprise. The '-er' is the plain English agent ending — the one who does the enfolding.
- word origin
- From Latin implicare, meaning to entangle or enfold
- first paychecks
- Ancient Sumerians paid workers in daily beer rations
- loyalty myth
- Average worker tenure now hovers around four years
- power shift
- Henry Ford doubled wages to stop quitting epidemics
- hidden cost
- Bad bosses outrank low pay as the top quitting reason
amazon — employs 1.5 million people worldwide as of 2024
walmart — employs 2.1 million people globally, largest private employer in the us
china national petroleum — employs 1.4 million people in china
state grid corporation — employs 926,000 people, largest employer in china