The Emergence Machine

Employee

abstract · Work/Occupation · Level 8 · E10

E10Institutions

Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

A person who works for an employer and receives compensation in exchange for labor or professional services, as a person's capacity for work is shaped by patterns of organization and interaction with their environment.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “employee” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “employee”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
employee
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0EmployeePersonBodyAnimal… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesDepartment WorkL11EmployeeL8PatternL0PersonL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Pattern L0 (requires)
    A person who works for an employer and receives compensation in exchange for labor or professional services.
  • Person L7 (requires)
    An employee is a person who works for an employer

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