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 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
  • 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
  • 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 | 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Almost 17 percent of the state’s workforce is employed by a nonprofit.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2023
  • With the adults away in their office jobs, the teenage bartender comes in as a solution for companies who won’t or can’t entice those who have been in the workforce for some time.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Findings from a new study reveals that the workforce should prepare to become even more inclusive.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 29 Nov. 2023
  • How a solar eclipse threw a remote Utah town — and its Navajo workforce — into crisis.
    Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • By 2030, Generation Z will account for nearly one-third of the U.S. workforce.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Such has been the elephant in the room for concerned personnel throughout the world, in industries both large and small, ever since AI made its way into the workforce.
    Roger Sands, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • India has never been able to create enough jobs for new workers entering the workforce.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Once a year and sometimes more, investigators perform in-depth audits at the farms and interview at least half the workforce.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
  • In the engineering and science spaces, Black female workers make up just 1.8% of the total workforce.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The acuity of these trends and their impact on the global workforce shouldn’t be underestimated.
    Sander Van 't Noordende, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The decision to sign new contracts for its European and U.S. conventions comes at a time when Twitch is trimming its workforce.
    Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Experts fear that this extensive data collection could be a stepping stone, a way to train AI to replace human roles in the workforce.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2023

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