The phrase "a workforce of around" 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 around 500 employees, which allows it to meet the demands of its growing client base."
Alternatives: "approximately 500 employees" or "a staff of about".
Bombardier is one of Northern Ireland's largest private sector employers with a workforce of around 5,000.
In 2015, more than half of the total is due to go, and then 100 jobs in 2016, leaving a workforce of around 2,400.
It's definitely a serious venture: they're assumed to be backed by tens of millions of euros, employ a workforce of around 150 people and its board of directors has been joined by people like Nokia's former CEO (and current Chairman of Shell) Jorma Ollila, and F-Secure Founder/Chairman Risto Siilasmaa.
The company has a workforce of around 3,000 in the area and added it will "continue to review these numbers in the current climate".
The 500 to 600 jobs lost will be a mixture of full and part-time roles at sites across the country, and will leave a workforce of around 1,500.
Its current Redmond Campus includes 125 buildings that house a workforce of around 48,000, but its expansion will add capacity for an additional 8,000 staff and introduce more scenic elements to the site.
Vaxman wouldn't say how much Rocket Internet has invested, but the young company already has a distributed workforce of around 70 employees and it's looking to hire more.
That exercise is now likely to be repeated by EMI's new owners, with further redundancies of around 10% expected at its global workforce of around 3,500.
A manager in a factory making acrylic and gift products, who would only identify himself as "Mr. Li," said his plant employed around 80 Vietnamese and Burmese workers in his workforce of around 600.
William Morris Endeavor Entertainment will have a workforce of nearly 1,000, although around 100 job cuts are expected in a drive to save money.
With a workforce of 140 and a wage bill of around £5m, Cygnet will have to pay around £10,000 extra a year in tax under the levy.
