employment, jobs and work?

pleasen help me,
Can we use employment, jobs and work interchangebly?
Is this sentence correct: “This company supplies employment for 10,000 employees”?

Jobs, work and employment are not always interchangeable.

That sentence is odd. The simplest, most common way to say it is “The company employs 10,000 people.”

Employment is the condition of having a job.
Your job is the task you have to perform or your position.
Your work is your actual output or the tasks you must accomplish.

Your employment can be terminated, but your job and work may remain for someone else.

Your job may be to answer phone calls and maintain files, but you could not use employment here.

I may have a lot of work today, but I cannot say I have a lot of job or employment today.

Where they are interchangeable:

I’m looking for work.
I’m looking for a job.
I’m looking for employment.

“How is your job going?” likely means the whole experience.
“How is your work?” likely means just the tasks you are paid to perform.

Hi Mordant
Thanks for your very quick reply :slight_smile:
I agree with you that the most common way to say is “The company employs 10,000 people”.
However, can we rewrite this sentence with the word “employment”?

You could use your first sentence, but it would be awkward because we generally don’t say employment is supplied and you used both “employment” and “employees” so close to each other.

The company provides employment to 10,000.

Other options:

10,000 people are in the employment of the company.
?10,000 people are under the employment of the company.

I’m quite satisfied with your two explanations now
Thanks a ton :slight_smile:

Incidentally, can I say this?

There’s 100 people in the employ of Company Z

Thanks!

dear Tort,
I think you can say: There’re 100 people in the employ of company Z.
to be in sb’s employ or tobe in the employ of sb are idioms and they mean working for sb, employed by sb.
However I find it a bit complicated, I think it’s much better to keep our sentences simple :slight_smile: