senior workers

Long-tenured staff members

Senior workers are employees who have been with an organization for many years or who are older in age—the two senses often overlap.

The term appears in discussions of workplace dynamics, retirement planning, and age discrimination: The company offered buyouts to senior workers.

It can emphasize experience and institutional knowledge or, less charitably, suggest resistance to change or higher labor costs.

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tenure/experience level

senior workerstrainees

People being instructed

newcomers · newbies · neophytes

organizational hierarchy

senior workersentry-level workers

Newly hired inexperienced staff

subordinates · junior staff

career stage

senior workersyoung professionals

Recently employed educated adults

apprentices · interns · trainees · young workers · graduates

Family

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