workforce

[ˈwɜːrkfɔːrs]

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.