Workforce
in sentence
635 examples of Workforce in a sentence
Palestinians’ access to Egypt was restricted, and much of Gaza’s largely unskilled
workforce
was dependent on the UN Relief Works Administration, which built and maintained the local refugee camps.
If another country supplied America with technical and commercial advances free of investment costs, as the US supplies Europe, the US would have more capital left to equip its
workforce
more lavishly.
According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report, the most digitized sectors – ranked by 18 metrics on digital assets, digital usage, and digital
workforce
– enjoy significantly higher profit margins than traditional sectors.
A key component of Abe’s growth strategy is to expand the
workforce
– a major challenge, given that Japanese society is aging rapidly.
Rather, they suggest that an unfavorable demographic profile can be offset by other advanced-country characteristics, such as a well-developed physical infrastructure, a highly educated workforce, sophisticated technological capabilities, mature financial markets, and stable governing institutions.
The public sector is by far the largest employer of GCC citizens: in Saudi Arabia, the government employs 80% of the indigenous workforce; in Kuwait, the figure is 93%.
This has led to excessive
workforce
externalization, high rates of CEO turnover, takeover bids, and restructurings of all kinds – all which have far-reaching consequences.
It will be impossible for the next generation of industrializing countries to move 25% or more of their
workforce
into manufacturing, as East Asian economies did.
It is estimated that increasing migration by just 3% of the
workforce
in developed countries between 2005 and 2025 would generate global gains of $356 billion, more than two-thirds of which would accrue to developing countries.
Adjusting for Japan’s declining
workforce
shows that in terms of per capita GDP, Japan has actually performed just as well as many other advanced economies in recent years.
Between now and 2050, Europe’s
workforce
will decrease by 70 million.
Economists must learn from engineering students, as it will be engineers building the future
workforce.
When people who in other circumstances could be happy, healthy, and productive members of the
workforce
lack the skills, confidence, social networks, and experience needed to find work worth paying for, we obviously have a problem.
But efforts to overcome at least four – high unemployment, an aging workforce, climate change, and infrastructure deficiencies – would benefit significantly from policies promoting long-term investments.
But tax reform will be a long and difficult slog, and there are much faster ways of getting young people into the
workforce.
Politicians and journalists often suggest that people compete for jobs, the implication being that bringing more women into Europe’s
workforce
would deny jobs to men.
But that is not likely to help growth, and it imposes the burden on the
workforce
and the young who are trying to enter it, a valuable subset of whom are mobile and could simply leave.
He created 3,500 health centers and 16,000 health posts, and dramatically expanded the health-care
workforce
by building more medical schools and deploying more 38,000 community-based health extension workers.
In their view, the years following World War II were an aberration, with industrial countries’ growth helped by post-war reconstruction, rising education levels, higher
workforce
participation rates (owing to the entry of women), restored global trade, increasing investment, and the diffusion of technologies such as electricity, telephones, and automobiles.
According to one view, Eastern Europe was uniquely positioned to benefit from multinational companies: its
workforce
was well educated, especially in engineering and sciences, and was thus able to avoid the classic “low-skills, low-wage” trap.
The Ministry of Trade and Industry established a sensible incentive scheme for export-oriented investment and a black empowerment program that encourages investors to help the previously neglected
workforce.
Demography clearly plays a role: a larger share of the
workforce
is reaching retirement age, while the share of those aged 16-24 who are pursuing education is rising.
By the same logic, stronger growth in 2014 and tightening labor markets should lead to healthier wage gains for the 70% of the
workforce
whose real wages have not yet returned to their pre-recession level.
Surveys – including those conducted by my own organization – consistently show that business leaders understand the need for equal treatment of men and women in the
workforce.
Meanwhile, there is growing recognition of the positive contribution that greater
workforce
diversity makes to business performance.
In order to accomplish this, businesses must actively challenge men to help advance women in the
workforce.
What counts as a company’s
workforce?
By contrast, companies whose managers believe that a competitive marketplace is no place for ethical behavior will suffer if and when consumers take their business elsewhere; government regulation and fines force them to act; or they become unable to attract an educated and ever-more discerning
workforce.
To succeed, countries increasingly need a highly skilled and educated
workforce.
The East Asian tigers invested heavily in education, and it paid off in terms of a capable and modern
workforce.
Back
Next
Related words
Women
People
Their
Growth
Skills
Economic
Countries
Global
Education
Million
Workers
Which
Labor
Country
Would
Economy
Educated
Training
Could
Young