The phrase "a workforce of about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating the size of a workforce in a specific context, such as business reports or discussions about employment.
Example: "The company has a workforce of about 500 employees, which allows us to meet our production goals efficiently."
Alternatives: "approximately 500 employees" or "a staff of around".
"At the end of 2009 we reported a workforce of about 304,000.
When the brothers started, they had a workforce of about 30.
The facility in Dundee has a workforce of about 850, and millions of pounds have been invested there over recent years.
The investment bank is to lose 7,000 jobs from a workforce of about 24,000 as it shifts away from its traditional area of expertise in fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) and move towards advising customers and equities.
The one agency workforce the budget specifically targets is the Environmental Protection Agency, where an overall spending reduction of 31percentt "would result in approximately 3,200 fewer positions at the agency" — about a 20percentt reduction of a workforce of about 15,600.
Doncaster Council agreed to cut the equivalent of 670 full-time posts from a workforce of about 5,200.
We've gone from an expat workforce of about 1,000 to about 400.
In Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, Australian Leather has a workforce of 40, and makes about 50,000 pairs of ugg boots annually using Australian sheepskins.
At its manufacturing site in Gölcük, FO has a workforce of 7,200 employees: about two thirds are manual workers (90%% male) who rotate weekly through early, late and night shifts, each of 8 h; the remainder are clerical or managerial staff working a standard 5-day week, 8 am to 6 pm.
Half of its workforce of about 8,000 people are in sales, a number CEO Andrew MAson threw out yesterday during an interview at the D9 conference.
It would cut 3,200 positions, or more than 20percentt of the agency's current workforce of about 15,000.
