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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a workforce shortage" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the lack of available workers in a particular industry or sector.
Example: "The company is struggling to meet production demands due to a workforce shortage in skilled labor."
Alternatives: "labor shortage" or "staffing deficit".
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There is some debate about whether there will be a workforce shortage in STEM overall.[iii] [iv] There can be no such debate where computer science is concerned.
Currently, there is evidence that a workforce shortage exists in the field of occupational therapy (OT), and few studies have been published in this area to systematically examine the status of the OT workforce.
"We advocate eligible couples to have two children because it can help reduce the proportion of ageing people and alleviate a workforce shortage in the future," Xie Lingli, head of the city's Family Planning Commission, told the China Daily.
At the same time, a rapidly aging population will put an especially heavy burden on single children, a fact that has prompted Shanghai to begin encouraging eligible couples to have more than one child to "alleviate a workforce shortage in the future," as the head of Shanghai's family planning commission has put it.
Meanwhile, with urbanization of life and more humans moving to live in cities, there will also be a workforce shortage on farms.
While a text certainly cannot single-handedly compensate for such a workforce shortage, it could potentially help to mitigate the negative impact on patients by facilitating early identification and treatment in the primary care setting.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Women account for just one out of 10 cyber security professionals, as the gender gap widened over two years in a male-dominated field with a drastic workforce shortage, a survey showed.
However, even with this rapid growth in funding, the MOH continues to suffer a severe workforce shortage with a population/physician ratio of 34,579: 1, and a population/nurse ratio of 4,441 1, among the worst in the world [ 8].
These restrictions generally limit OTDs to working in a District of Workforce Shortage, which is generally a rural and remote area [ 14].
Child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP), a subspecialty of psychiatry in Japan, is facing a serious workforce shortage.
A survey in America last month by Ernst & Young found that "although corporate America foresees a significant workforce shortage as boomers retire, it is not dealing with the issue".
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