How to Change sitename.com/author/

You could just do a 301 redirect from author to employees. That way future updates of DW Q&A wont over write a patch. Just my thought anyway. 

If you don’t want to use a plugin, add this code in your functions.php

 add_action(

 'init'

 , 

 'change_wp_author_base'

 );

 function

 change_wp_author_base() {

 global

 $wp_rewrite

 ;

 $author_slug

 = 

 'employees'

 ; 

 // changed author slug name

 $wp_rewrite

 ->author_base = 

 $author_slug

 ;

 }