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You cannot say with employee list, that the list is an employee, whereas with an adjective, you can do so. Contrast singing lessons with a singing man. In the first case, it is a noun adjunct, not an adjective, because the lessons are not singing, but in the second case, it is a real adjective. – tchrist ♦. CommentedAug 10, 2013 at 23:38.
Is there a single-word term for "Number of employees" as in "our company's number of employees"?
The difference is this: s' is used for plural possessive; 's is used for singular possessive; s' can also be used at the end of proper names that end in s to indicate the possessive without adding the extra s. Since only one user is likely to be reading a "User's Guide" at a time, it would make sense to use the 's in that title.
Sometimes I see two variants of following sentence: "there are not any employees" in the department "there is not any employee" in the department What is the correct sentence?
The mundane term is nonstaff, derived from staff. Staff noun [treated as singular or plural] All the people employed by a particular organization - ODO Non-staff adjective Not staff (regular employees). - yourdictionary.com (Also at wikitionary)
While the term may derived from the meanings you list, it's rare that any of them is an accurate description of the employees' relationship. The use by businesses is a form of double-speak, whose intent is as you described in your second paragraph.
How do you greet multiple recipients in an e-mail? Assuming they're both male, I just use "Sirs", but it seems a bit informal.
17 2. This may be different based on one's dialect, but for me (American speaker) only Country List and List of Countries are correct. – user21497. Jan 17, 2013 at 7:07. 2. @BillFranke- Interestingly, if you add an adjective then countries becomes viable: banned countries list, first-world countries list, etc.
As Araucaria mentions in answers below, the first example as well as the second should have us employees rather than we, as in both cases the phrase serves as the object of a preposition.
2. It feels more correct to say "This food was cooked by the staff of Eat Out restaurant" as opposed to "This food was cooked by the employees of Eat Out restaurant." I cannot, however explain to an English learner why this is so. Is it just a matter of common usage? Is there a grammatical angle to it? Please don't use code blocks for emphasis ...