as in staff
a body of persons at work or available for work
the office's entire workforce is devoted to a single project right now
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Recent Examples of workforce
With appropriate governance and strategic planning, companies can use AI to build a highly skilled workforce, exploring new frontiers in emerging technologies.
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Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
Across its seven years, their non-profit has raised over $10 million to help with workforce education, food insecurity, and disaster relief.
—Brendan Hay, SPIN, 16 Dec. 2024
These companies have the potential to use AI to route around inefficiencies, unlock new growth from existing talent, and tap into the collective intelligence of their workforce in ways never before possible.
—Ethan Mollick, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2024
The other side: Democrats could face blowback within their party even for targeting non-mandatory spending, particularly from colleagues who represent huge swaths of the federal workforce.
—Andrew Solender, Axios, 13 Dec. 2024
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Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
Across its seven years, their non-profit has raised over $10 million to help with workforce education, food insecurity, and disaster relief.
—Brendan Hay, SPIN, 16 Dec. 2024
These companies have the potential to use AI to route around inefficiencies, unlock new growth from existing talent, and tap into the collective intelligence of their workforce in ways never before possible.
—Ethan Mollick, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2024
The other side: Democrats could face blowback within their party even for targeting non-mandatory spending, particularly from colleagues who represent huge swaths of the federal workforce.
—Andrew Solender, Axios, 13 Dec. 2024
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Information for this article was contributed by Illia Novikov, Lolita C. Baldor and staff writers of The Associated Press and by Anton Troianovski and Constant Méheut of The New York Times.Compiled byDemocrat-Gazette stafffrom wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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Matthew Fairburn is a staff writer for The Athletic covering the Buffalo Sabres.Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 18 Dec. 2024
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The Vikings have improved their personnel by adding Blake Cashman, Jonathan Greenard and Andrew Van Ginkel while playing a more complex system that is difficult for opposing offensive coordinators and quarterbacks to decipher.Steve Silverman, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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This decision involved experienced motorsport personnel, including Cyril Abiteboul, a former F1 team boss now spearheading Genesis Magma Racing.Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
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But health insurers are typically doing the bidding of the employer who hires them or the government that pays them to administer a pool of money, which are premiums paid by consumers, taxpayers, workers or employers.Bruce Japsen, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Although facial recognition software has come a long way in the past two decades, Duffey said, the image is likely not clear enough to get a reasonably small pool of matches.Christina Coulter, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Workforce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workforce. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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