The phrase "a lean workforce" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a workforce that is streamlined, efficient, and has minimal excess in terms of personnel.
Example: "The company has adopted a strategy to maintain a lean workforce, ensuring that every employee contributes significantly to productivity."
Alternatives: "an efficient workforce" or "a streamlined workforce."
Labor laws don't allow for the types of remuneration structures many startups like to rely on, and companies trying to maintain a lean workforce waste precious time and resources navigating the country's antiquated tax code.
By almost every study, companies of all sizes are emphasizing a lean workforce, and hiring on project-basis engagements more and more (though not all are as drastic as Caterpillar).
Productivity always bounces back in the first year of a recovery, as firms produce more with a leaner workforce.
The financial plan outlines cuts of £26.7m to 2015-16 via a "leaner workforce", maximising assets – such as vacating underused offices – and joint, or "smarter", procurement of services with other councils.
"We will have a leaner workforce, but one based on more rewarding jobs allowing people to be more productive".
The number of engineers - 32 - in an extremely lean workforce.
In April he signed a budget that cuts 3.6% of the state's already lean workforce, freezes the pay of the remnant for the sixth straight year, and cuts funding while raising tuition fees at state universities.
Another of Mr Scott's initiatives provides extensive pension and salary information for state employees.Some complain that by posting such information Mr Scott, whose budgets have trimmed Florida's already lean workforce, is stoking public anger against state employees and their generous pensions.
"The council's move to a smaller, leaner workforce will be achieved through developing skills of existing staff, greater movement and flexibility of people around the organisation, restricting external recruitment and reductions in overall staff numbers through natural turnover", it said.
Organisations that have higher workloads and lean workforces erode wellbeing.
"A lean and efficient workforce at the EPA is a win for taxpayers and the environment by allowing more funding to go towards efforts to clean our water and air". The agency also underwent buyouts during the Obama administration, but EPA still had about 15,000 employees when he left office.
