| 员工 | yuán gōng | staff / personnel / employee |   |
| 职工 | zhí gōng | employee / staff member / worker | |
| 从业人员 | cóng yè rén yuán | employee / person employed in a trade or profession | |
| 雇员 | gù yuán | employee | |
| 打工仔 | dǎ gōng zǎi | young worker / employee / young male worker | |
| 行员 | háng yuán | (Tw) staff / clerk / employee (of a bank 銀行|银行[yin2hang2] or commercial firm 商行[shang1hang2]) | |
| 业绩 | yè jì | achievement / accomplishment / (in more recent usage) performance (of a business, employee etc) / results | |
| 录取 | lù qǔ | to accept an applicant (prospective student, employee etc) who passes an entrance exam / to admit (a student) / to hire (a job candidate) | |
| 小妹 | xiǎo mèi | little sister / girl / (Tw) young female employee working in a low-level role dealing with the public (assistant, waitress, attendant etc) | |
| 高职 | gāo zhí | vocational higher education institution (abbr. for 高等職業技術學校|高等职业技术学校[gao1 deng3 zhi2 ye4 ji4 shu4 xue2 xiao4]) / senior academic or professional title (abbr. for 高級職稱|高级职称[gao1 ji2 zhi2 cheng1]) / high-ranking employee (abbr. for 高級職員|高级职员[gao1 ji2 zhi2 yuan2]) / (Tw) vocational high school | |
| 花瓶 | huā píng | flower vase / (fig.) female employee considered to be just a pretty face (attractive but not very competent) | |
| 政府官员 | zhèng fǔ guān yuán | government employee | |
| 做官 | zuò guān | to take an official post / to become a government employee | |
| 解聘 | jiě pìn | to dismiss an employee / to sack | |
| 扶正 | fú zhèng | to set sth upright or straight / to promote an employee from part-time to full-time (or from deputy to principal) / (old) to raise from concubine to wife status | |
| 吃皇粮 | chī huáng liáng | lit. to eat from government coffers / to serve as a government employee / to live off government money | |
| 查岗 | chá gǎng | to check the guard posts / (coll.) to check up on sb (spouse, employee etc) | |
| 照发 | zhào fā | approved for distribution / to provide (wages etc) as usual (e.g. while an employee is on maternity leave) | |
| 站员 | zhàn yuán | station employee / railway clerk | |
| 雇員 | gù yuán | employee / also written 僱員|雇员 | |
| 内推 | nèi tuī | (math.) interpolation / (human resources) internal referral / employee referral (recommendation of a potential new employee by an existing employee or client) | |
| 广播通知系统 | guǎng bō tòng zhī xì tǒng | Employee Notification System | |
| 职工发展中心 | | Employee Development Centre | |
| 与雇员福利有关的负债 | | liabilities for employee benefits | |
| 医务和职工协助司 | | Medical and Employee Assistance Division | |
| 雇员福利 | gù yuán fú lì | employee benefits | |
| 雇员缴款 | | employee contribution | |
| 工薪雇员 | | wage employee | |
| 住家佣工 | | live-in employee | |
| 驻地雇员 | | resident employee | |
| 职工股票所有权计划 | | employee stock ownership plan | |
| 末位淘汰 | mò wèi táo tài | sacking the worst-performing employee / elimination of the worst-performing contestant | |
| 大头兵 | dà tóu bīng | low-ranking soldier / (by extension) low-level employee | |
| 工号 | gōng hào | employee number | |
| 调岗 | diào gǎng | to transfer an employee to another post / reassignment / also pr. [tiao2 gang3] | |
