What America's Longest-Tenured Employees Say About Work -- Then and Now -- Journal Report
They joined before email and smartphones -- and outlasted recessions, strategy shifts and an ever-rotating cast of CEOs.Across American corporations, a small, dwindling number of employees have spent decades inside the same company, their careers spanning several eras of work.At a time when the typical employee stays in a job for about four years, The Wall Street Journal set out to find the outliers: the longest-tenured workers inside some of the biggest and best-known U.S. companies. After all, who has more perspective on how work has changed and where it might be headed?Various roles: In those 55 years, she has worked as a cashier, in security and, for the bulk of her tenure, as a guest-services team lead, running the front of the store and hiring or training hundreds of new staffers. She's watched as Target's stores became more automated, with more sophisticated systems for managing inventory, and as consumer habits shifted and people bought more items online. "I thrive on ch