The phrase "agile workforce" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a group of employees or workers who are flexible, adaptable, and able to respond quickly to changes in the work environment or market demands.
Example: "In today's fast-paced business landscape, having an agile workforce is essential for staying competitive and meeting customer needs."
Alternatives: "flexible workforce" or "adaptive workforce".
And it could be a lifesaver for the austerity-hit adult learning sector, which is vital to maintaining an agile workforce in an age where there is no such thing as a job for life.
One effective method to achieve this is to create a more flexible, highly skilled and agile workforce capable to perform multiple or all the required tasks in a production area where the system can be reconfigured easily as needed to accommodate changes of production requirement on a daily or weekly basis.
Her book entitled, 'The Agile Workforce and Workplace: The New Future of Work,' was published by Working Mother Media/Bonnier Corporation in October, 2011.
As Chris Worley, Tom Williams, and I point out in our book The Agility Factor, vital to creating an agile organization is having an agile workforce.
There are essentially two ways to have an agile workforce: one is to change who is in the workforce, and the other is to change the individuals who are already in the workforce.
An agile workforce with highly specialized skills is required to mount an immediate and effective response to disasters and humanitarian emergencies [ 11- 14].
Hence, an appropriately trained, qualified and agile health workforce is required to improve response to disasters.
Between June 4 and Oct. 14, the company's newest plant on the outskirts of Delhi experienced 21 days of worker sit-ins, a 33-day lock-out during which plant managers tried to run the place with outside workers and prolonged negotiations between a cautious, middle-aged management team and a young and agile media-savvy workforce.
Lori Sokol, Ph.D., is the founder/publisher of Work Life Matters magazine and co-author of 'The Agile Workplace and Workforce: The New Future of Work,' (2011).
Lori Sokol, Ph.D., is founder and publisher of Work Life Matters magazine and author of the book, 'The New Agile Workplace and Workforce: The New Future of Work," published by Bonnier Corporation in 2011.
Nick Donovan, managing director at First TransPennine Express, told The Independent: "Some of these [infrastructure] projects are so ambitious and our workforce is not as agile or experienced in speed of delivery as they need to be … There's never a single issue [for delays] but there is a talent/skills issue".
