# staff (people)

people who do work for a company

- Computed level: L10 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday  ·  Arena: staff

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [company](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-company.economic), [work](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-work.effort)

**Through:** people do work for a company together and be a group

**Novel properties:**
- collective employment
- shared organizational role
- group identity

## Examples
- In 2023, Amazon employed 1.5 million people to manage warehouses, deliveries, and cloud services. *(economics)*
- The Apollo 13 mission succeeded because NASA's ground staff coordinated repairs under real-time constraints. *(engineering)*
- Nurses at France's Bichat Hospital maintained patient care during the 2003 heatwave, preventing system collapse. *(institutions)*

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