noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
flexible
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Clearly now as never before there is a need for a well-trained, flexible workforce .
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A skilled, flexible workforce is a key element in that environment.
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It is for this reason that this group should be included in any study of the flexible workforce .
skilled
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So, the first requirement is that older workers should be included in the drive for a more skilled workforce .
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Its goal was to create a highly skilled workforce for the Susquehanna Valley, where P &038; G is located.
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All but the far right have acknowledged the need to develop a more skilled workforce , since whites can no longer fill the demand.
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Many Silicon Valley companies are growing so fast, they are eager to build a skilled high-tech workforce .
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At Leyland, Preston and Chorley a skilled workforce has built up a reputation over many years for producing lorries and buses.
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Together, the four groups produce a highly skilled workforce that no one institution could develop on its own.
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A highly skilled workforce trained in designing and manufacturing high-quality, high value-added products at low cost, with shorter lead times.
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A skilled , flexible workforce is a key element in that environment.
total
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The survey analysed nearly 21,000 salaries of senior managers to supervisors at more than 900 companies with a total workforce of 824,000.
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Corus shed 4,500 jobs last year, reducing its total workforce to 33,000, citing the strong pound.
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Here over half the total workforce was unskilled, and here resided nearly half the borough's pool of unskilled labour.
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The former basic industries - mining, agriculture, construction and manufacturing - now employ about a third of the total workforce .
■ VERB
cut
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The group cut its workforce by 39,800 to 170,700 during the year.
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Salaries declined as the bank cut its workforce by 3 percent.
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It also cut its workforce to 170 from 295.
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The bank cut its workforce by 3 percent, helping lop $ 200 million from annual operating expenses.
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PacTel already is in the middle of a multiyear plan to cut its workforce by 10, 000.
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An employee told the Free Press the company aimed to cut the 71,000 workforce by some 5,000 people, 7%.
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Wells fired 1, 750 employees on April 1 and announced plans to cut its workforce by 7, 200 this year.
educate
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It can also help provide a well educated workforce .
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In this new economy, smart businesses rely on an educated workforce to thrive.
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Secondly there is more scope for cross-fertilization and education, making a better-\#educated and more versatile workforce .
enter
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Women entering the workforce , poor childcare facilities, marrying too late, all are blamed.
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The rate at which women were entering the workforce slowed.
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Urban populations are far more likely to attend university and to enter the global workforce than are rural populations.
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The original purpose of the law was to help disabled people enter the workforce .
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Such people tend to perform marginal tasks and to enter and leave the workforce at random intervals.
increase
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Eventually Bleasdale plans to increase the workforce to between 30 and 50.
reduce
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Corus shed 4,500 jobs last year, reducing its total workforce to 33,000, citing the strong pound.
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This covered costs associated with reducing the workforce and with making essential improvements to the utilities infrastructure.
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This had reduced the workforce by 53,800, or 2 percent, from last year, strapping many key industries.
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The redundancies took place in stages from 1979 to 1981, reducing the workforce from more than 1,500 to 500.
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Schimberni had, however, succeeded in substantially reducing the workforce through the early retirement of approximately 30,000 workers.
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Government subsidies would be reduced and the workforce cut from 130,000 to 100,000.
train
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Fiat said it will spend $ 40 million on training its new workforce .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a workforce of 3500 employees
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Cook began his cost-cutting campaign by getting rid of a third of his workforce .
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Women make up 41% of the workforce .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A new federal survey on the growing shortage of nurses portrays a stagnant workforce with a dramatic slowdown in nursing school enrollments.
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A union spokesman said that none of the people arrested were from the sacked Timex workforce .
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Employment in mining stood at 104 in 1964 and at 2,100 in 1977, about 0.2 percent of the workforce .
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His practical genius for ergonomics allowed him to succeed in adapting tasks to suit a disabled workforce .
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In April Britain's unemployment rate was unchanged at 10.5% of the workforce .
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The bank cut its workforce by 3 percent, helping lop $ 200 million from annual operating expenses.
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Together, the four groups produce a highly skilled workforce that no one institution could develop on its own.
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Your education programs should be designed to accommodate different needs within your workforce .