employment

gainful occupation
Thing social_relation Q656365
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Summary

employment is a social relation[1]. employment draws 3,389 Wikipedia views per month (social relation category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: economic activity[3], association[4]
  • Part of: occupation[5]
  • Commons category: Employment[6]
  • Has part(s): employer[7], employee[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Employment[9]
  • Facet of: work[10]
  • Described by source: The New Student's Reference Work[11]
  • Topic has template: Template:Employment[12]
  • Has characteristic: termination of employment[13], probation[14], timesheet software[15], time clock[16], access badge[17], working conditions[18], scope of employment[19], employment relationship[20]
  • Related Wikidata property: P108[21], P1128[22]
  • Equivalent class: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001226[23]
  • Different from: job activity[24], employment[25], employing[26], employment-to-population ratio[27]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[28]

Why It Matters

employment has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] employment is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). employment. Retrieved October 18, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/employment
MLA “employment.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 18 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/employment.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_employment_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{employment}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/employment}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-18}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): employment — https://4ort.xyz/entity/employment (retrieved 2026-10-18)

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14870 → ont00001226
    Subclass of → economic activity, association
    Equivalent class → https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001226
    Topic's main category → Category:Employment
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/53024|batch #53024]]"
  2. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → economic activity, association
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: social action"
  3. 6w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → employment
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: employment, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289926495|employment (#289926495)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  4. 10w ago · Infovarius · 2026-08-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Treccani id → impiego
    Topic's main category → Category:Employment
    Has characteristic → termination of employment, probation, timesheet software +5
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Topic's main category: Category:Work, using [[User:Frettie/consistency check add.js]]"
  5. 12w ago · Horcrux · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Treccani id → impiego
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Treccani id: rapporto-di-lavoro"
  6. 13w ago · Charp238 · 2026-07-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Namuwiki id → 취업
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Namuwiki id: 취업"
  7. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0000771-zamestnani
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0000771-zamestnani, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  8. 24w ago · GeertivpBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Employment
    Jstor topic id (archived) → contract-labor, employment
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 4206182
    Instance of → social relation
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||jv, hu, de, az, da, eo, fy, new, nl, ps, sl */ #pwb Copy label"
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