How to Use workforce in a Sentence

workforce

noun

• We have a workforce of 2,400 people.
• One-fifth of the West Bank workforce was employed in Israel.
  — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
• To be sure, the mean numbers are a blunt assessment across the whole workforce.
  — Tom Metcalf, Fortune Europe, 4 Apr. 2024
• And as more members of Gen Z join the workforce, that number is likely to grow.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
• The two got married, and within a few years Mills had left the workforce to bring up their children.
  — Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• The Caldwell School District plans to shrink its workforce.
  — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 1 June 2024
• The bill is hefty enough that some parents opt to leave the workforce because their income might not to offset the cost of child care.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Walmart is shutting three tech hubs in the US, forcing a rejig in the workforce.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 14 Feb. 2023
• Ahead of the close of that deal, eOne laid off 10% of its employees; that came after Hasbro cut eOne’s workforce by 20% in June.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
• And so far, the union movement has attracted only the smallest of fractions of the workforce.
  — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 25 Apr. 2024
• The war’s most immediate impact on tech firms has come through the workforce.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• The cathedral’s own workforce also is being scaled back up.
  — John Leicester, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Dec. 2023
• But the number of Indian women in the workforce, already among the 20 lowest in the world, has been shrinking for years.
  — Krutika Pathi, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2023
• The job cuts amount to about 3% of the entertainment giant’s global workforce.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 25 Apr. 2023
• Economists fear the erosion of child-care options could roll back recent gains in the workforce.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
• Due to the economy, Liam decided to go into the workforce.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024
• An influx of immigrants in the past three years has enlarged the nation's workforce.
  — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Sep. 2024
• Among the most urgent of these impacts is the need to reskill and upskill the global workforce to meet the demands of the economy of tomorrow.
  — Mirek Dušek, TIME, 26 June 2024
• Krier joined the workforce when the country needed women to fill the boys’ shoes in 1941, and hasn’t stopped working for equality since.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
• Templeton had to rebuild and learn to be both mom and provider, which meant returning to the full-time workforce with a 10-year gap in her resume.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024
• From the job ads that grab their attention to the industries luring them in, LinkedIn is a goldmine of workforce insights.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2023
• Plans of $2 billion in cost-cutting, which included laying off 2% of Nike’s workforce, didn’t stem the tide.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2024
• And that’s for people near retirement now—the number may grow even higher for young people, who still have decades in the workforce.
  — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2023
• Tesla joined the group this week, announcing plans to cut more than 10 percent of its global workforce.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
• That aspiration spread across the low-wage workforce, helping to achieve a base pay of $15 per hour in six states and dozens of cities that play host to tens of millions of workers.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2024
• The film commission hasn’t stopped there with getting locals into the workforce.
  — Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 17 May 2024
• Cisco also announced a plan to cut 7% of its global workforce.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
• Members of Gen Z, the oldest of whom are now in their early- to mid-20s and are entering the workforce, came up with the lazy girl label themselves and are wearing it proudly.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 28 July 2023
• The country’s infrastructure and workforce are still struggling to catch up.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 29 July 2023
• The city will cut $36.6 million in spending over the next two years to workforce and business development, among other things, though city manager Erik Walsh says there will be no major impact on residents.
  — Megan Stringer, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024