employee vs incentive

employee

noun
  • One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives. 

  • An individual who provides labor to a company or another person. 

incentive

noun
  • A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder. 

  • Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages. 

adj
  • Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating. 

  • Serving to kindle or set on fire. 

How often have the words employee and incentive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )