Over the past few decades a rapid workforce expansion fueled the rise of the so-called East Asian tigers, the great economic success story of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
In response to a policy-driven workforce expansion in England new models of preparing health visitors for practice have been implemented.
Nevertheless, increased part-time working, whether undertaken by male or female pharmacists, is a concern for workforce expansion, as more pharmacists will be needed to maintain current levels of service provision due to reduced pharmacist full-time-equivalent contributions.
Lars-Erik Hannson, a tax partner at Ohrlings Coopers & Lybrand in Malm, calls Sweden's mixed tax and social benefit payment pattern an "impediment to workforce expansion and to high executive salaries" — this in a country that is currently showing 6.6% in official "registered" unemployment and another 3.9% employed through state-funded "labor market programs".
Amazon is an example of strong workforce expansion despite, or perhaps as a result of, heavy investment in automation.
Many of the policy-makers who are calling for workforce expansion admit that a key reason that certain groups are underrepresented in science is that the "effort-to-reward ratio" for entering science is so poor.
A significant limiting factor in health care workforce expansion in the past has been small medical school outputs--both due to a low overall number of medical schools and low enrolments at each school [ 9].
The discussion highlights the need for consideration to be given to dental workforce expansion through the adoption of a dental team approach to future oral healthcare provision and the introduction of postgraduate and specialty training programmes in Oman, all of which should be informed by further workforce development research.
In recent years, China's pace of workforce expansion has slowed, increasing at no more than one per cent a year since the beginning of the global financial crisis.
An NHS human resources strategy for workforce expansion and new ways of working was adopted [ 4], and a blueprint for establishing a new approach to workforce planning and development was agreed [ 5].
