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staff office

staff office

1 3.1
A department that hires, trains, and manages employees
  • noun
  • /stæf ˈɔfɪs/
  • Formal
translation icon : oficina de personal
  • The staff office is responsible for organizing training sessions for all personnel.

Examples

  • The first verbalization of the peer counselor responses takes place in the staff office.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The new employees were briefed on company policies at the staff office.

  • If you have any questions about your benefits, visit the staff office for assistance.

Synonyms

personnel
vsstaff office
167 3.0

The department that hires, trains and manages employees

is used for the organisational unit rather than the people themselves
personnel office
vsstaff office
3 3.3

A part of a company that hires, trains, and manages employees

is the same service but may present as a named administrative unit
personnel department
vsstaff office
1 3.4

A part of a company that hires, trains, and manages employees

is the same function but often called by a different organisational name

Surface Forms

staff office singular
staff offices plural

Morphology

staff + office

The phrase is directly compositional: 'staff' (employees) as a noun modifier combined with 'office' (an administrative unit/place) yields an office responsible for staff matters. This follows a common English noun-modifier pattern and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning.

Etymology

The noun staff office combines staff (the people who work for an organization) and office (the room where work is done). Picture a room where people who 'hire', 'train' and make rules for employees sit to help them, so staff office now means the department that 'manages employees' and handles employee policies.