Take broquaint's answer, remove the assignment, add a loop and a print. Job done.

Or do you just want the code: 

my %hash;
while (<DATA>) {
   my @data = split;
   $hash{$data[0]}->{employee_number} = $data[1];
   $hash{$data[0]}->{years_employed} = $data[2];
}
foreach (sort {
              $hash{$a}->{years_employed}
              <=>
              $hash{$b}->{years_employed}
              } keys %hash) {
   print "$_ $hash{$_}->{employee_number} $hash{$_}->{years_employed}\
+n";
};

__DATA__
SS123 EMP123 3
SS234 EMP124 2
SS456 EMP125 1

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prints 
SS456 EMP125 1
SS234 EMP124 2
SS123 EMP123 3

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rdfield

In reply to Re: Re: Re: HoH Sorting by value by rdfield
in thread HoH Sorting by value by Anonymous Monk

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