How to Use workforce in a Sentence
workforce
noun- We have a workforce of 2,400 people.
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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 -
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 -
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 | Mheim@al.com, 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 -
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 -
In relying on its own workforce, Amazon has assumed greater control over its delivery operations.
— Annie Palmer, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
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