workforce

Definition:
1. The force of workers available.

Use 'workforce' in a sentence:

• 1. The job losses will reduce the total workforce to 7,000.
• 2. They wanted a low-cost, docile workforce.
• 3. This requires a global-ready workforce.
• 4. Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the workforce is "unadoptable and untrained".
• 5. Dissatisfaction among the managers soon permeated down to members of the workforce.
• 6. The company plans to cut a quarter of its workforce over six years through natural attrition and fewer hirings.
• 7. The factory's workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred.
• 8. The second gets us to think about "workforce”.
• 9. Fears about job security plague nearly half the workforce.
• 10. One factory has had to scale down its workforce from six hundred to only six.
• 11. In Europe, the proportion of people living in cities was always smaller than that of the workforce working in factories.
• 12. The strength of the workforce is about to be doubled from 3 000 to 6 000.
• 13. Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the workforce is "unadaptable and untrained".
• 14. As fewer such workers enter the country, the characteristics of the agricultural workforce are changing.
• 15. More women joined the workforce.
• 16. Young people were several times more likely to be out of work than older members of the workforce.
• 17. One trouble with agricultural the workforce is the aging of immigrant farmworkers.
• 18. The factory has a 1000-strong workforce.
• 19. Since then, some 5.3 million jobs, or one-third of the workforce in manufacturing, have been lost.
• 20. They're restructuring and slimming down the workforce.
• 21. The company has pruned back its workforce by 20,000 since 2003.
• 22. I was about to say something about the workforce in the region and the level of training and education.
• 23. Men still outnumber women in the paid workforce.
• 24. It is too early to say what effect, if any, there will be on the workforce.
• 25. It fosters children's creativity, cooperation and problem-solving skills—all of which are critical for a 21st century workforce.
• 26. In June 1945, Britain still had forty-five per cent of its workforce in the Services and munitions industries.
• 27. More Americans are opting to work well into retirement, a growing trend that threatens to upend the old workforce model.
• 28. They reckoned he was a hatchet man, out to shred the workforce and crush the union.
• 29. In July Belgium's jobless rate was unchanged at 8.2% of the workforce.
• 30. We must harness the skill and creativity of our workforce.
• 31. By making the workforce more adaptable and skilled, he hopes to attract foreign investment.
• 32. Our workforce is highly trained and competitive.
• 33. The firm has slashed its workforce from a peak of 150,000 in 2000.
• 34. During my Mindsets coaching session, I was taught how to recruit a diversified workforce.
• 35. The company yesterday shed a sixth of its workforce.
• 36. The workforce has been pared to the bone.
• 37. The level of skill possessed by the local workforce varies with location.
• 38. Half the workforce are now (out) on strike.
• 39. He incited the workforce to come out on strike.
• 40. The decision incensed the workforce.
• 41. The total was close to 20% of the workforce.
• 42. The workforce has been slashed by half.
• 43. We needed to reskill our workforce to cope with massive technological change.
• 44. The workforce have recently been calling for their working hours to be reduced. Many companies have accordingly switched to a five-day week.
• 45. Even in a highly skilled workforce some people will be more capable and thus better paid than others.
• 46. Global workforce development doesn't always have to involve travel abroad however.
• 47. To clear the land and harvest the bananas they decided they needed a male workforce.
• 48. The workforce is generally accepted to have the best conditions in Europe.
• 49. Over ten per cent of the workforce is now idle.