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
• Specifically, the share of the workforce that drives to work each day.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
• That is less than half of the group's previous workforce.
  — Ben Goggin, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2023
• 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
• McMillon shared the news with his workforce by video, sitting at his desk wearing a dark sweater and a big smile.
  — Rick Wartzman, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
• Your workforce, your ideas and your business model should look the same, or better.
  — Michael Gale, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• The company slashed more than 10% of its global workforce in April, citing a need to cut costs.
  — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
• Danny Haber is trying to re-imagine the way the Bay Area builds workforce housing.
  — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Even so, the survey data suggests that the state has lost some of those gains since late last year because of the workforce shortage.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2022
• 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 bulk of their workforce over the past two weeks has been stationed in Jeff Davis and neighboring counties, Tucker said.
  — Amanda Musa, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024
• 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
• That was on top of a 4% reduction in its workforce announced in August.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2023
• 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
• But once the workforce and the skills that were needed changed, Michigan began falling behind.
  — Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2022
• No longer will there be a lack of incentive for workers to join the construction workforce.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• The decades-long way of making money in the film and TV industry has been turned upside down by new technologies, changing public appetites and the globalization of the workforce.
  — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
• On Hiring Day, enslavers in the U.S. tore families apart, trading individuals to form the strongest workforces for the upcoming year.
  — Nyya Toussaint / Made By History, TIME, 31 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025