the.com/employment
a daily ritual where you trade hours of your finite life for the privilege of buying back leisure.
means The state of having paid work, or the act of hiring someone to perform a job for wages.
from From the Old French 'emploier,' meaning to make use of or to apply, which descends from the Latin 'implicare' — literally 'to fold in, to entangle.' So buried in the word is the image of being woven into something, folded into a task. The same Latin root branches off into 'implicate' and 'imply,' which makes 'employment' a quiet cousin of being implicated — entangled in obligation, you might say.
- word origin
- From Latin implicare, meaning to entangle or involve
- first weekends
- The two-day weekend only spread in the 1920s
- job tenure
- Average worker holds a job around four years
- interview odds
- Most resumes get scanned for under ten seconds
- happiness peak
- Job satisfaction often dips in midlife, then rebounds
walmart — largest private employer in the us with 2.1 million employees worldwide as of 2024
china state construction — employs over 400,000 workers across massive infrastructure projects in china
indian railways — employs 1.3 million people, making it the world's largest employer by a single organization
amazon — second-largest us private employer with over 1.5 million employees globally since 2023