Agreed, and I say "people" more often than "employees". "Employee" has come to mean transactional and disposable, and I don't know how many leaders still feel

Agreed, and I say "people" more often than "employees". "Employee" has come to mean transactional and disposable, and I don't know how many leaders still feel obligation towards employees. Maybe thinking of people as people, rather than as what "employee" has come to mean, will activate feelings more like "our people" or "my people".