The phrase "a workforce of over" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the number of employees or workers in a particular organization or sector, typically followed by a numerical value.
Example: "The company boasts a workforce of over 500 employees, making it one of the largest employers in the region."
Alternatives: "a staff of more than" or "an employee count exceeding".
The current systems used to record employee attendance is fair and predictable and has resulted in dismissals of 11 permanent employees out of a workforce of over 5,000 permanent employees in 2013".
The Cleveland Clinic is the city's largest private employer with a workforce of over 37,000 as of 2008.
"We continue to recruit employees to support our business and operations globally and we continue to maintain a workforce of over one million employees worldwide".
Following the lead of India's outsourcing firms, IBM, for example, has gradually built up a workforce of over 100,000 in India, a big chunk of whom serve its clients abroad.
What began as a firm with a few offices in Japan is today an organization with a workforce of over 6000, including 658 partners, and professionals posted on long-term assignments to more than 40 locations outside Japan where they serve the unique needs of Japanese companies operating overseas.
Since its founding a year ago, Zirtual says it has assisted hundreds of professionals and currently employs a workforce of over 100 U.S. based Zirtual Assistants.
So most of the participants are employed by companies with a workforce of 100 – 500 or over 2,000.
WITH a workforce of just over 491,000 in 2013, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is second only to Walmart among civilian employers in America.
Even that number of days is high, of course, but needs to put in context that with a workforce of just over 30 million that amounts to 7.7 billion working days.
Fifty of the world's biggest multinationals have a hidden workforce of over a million workers, and 25 companies have a combined wealth of US$1.9 trillion - that could buy a country the size of South Korea or Canada.
As the intelligence beat reporter for the Washington Post at the time, I watched these agencies grow in size, as dozens of new buildings appeared around the Washington region to house a ballooning workforce of over a million people with top-secret security clearances.
