The phrase "amount of the workforce" is not correct in standard written English; it should be "number of the workforce." You can use it when discussing the size or count of a group of workers in a specific context, such as a company or industry.
Example: "The number of the workforce has increased significantly over the past year due to new hiring initiatives."
Alternatives: "size of the workforce" or "workforce count."
The layoffs, amounting to roughly 20% of the workforce, are intended to cut operating expenses by $2.5 billion by the end of 2015, the company announced today in a press release.
The job losses amount to more than 20% of the workforce and come on top of a 35% pay cut for remaining employees.
Using the predicted probabilities of being in each of the four states of the model over time, we then estimated the difference in the amount of time spent out of the workforce between 35 and 60 years according to diabetes status.
Mr Marchionne feels he is winning the argument with most workers but, he says, a group of leftists, amounting to around one-eighth of the workforce, is bent on disruption.Such bloody-mindedness is reminiscent of the death throes of British Leyland in the early 1980s.
This time, economists are arguing that innovations in video games could be affecting the amount of men in the workforce, the New York Times reports.
Under this act the lowest paid members of the workforce contributed a fixed amount of 4d a week, employers paid 3d, and then the general income tax payer added another 2d a week, so that overall 9d a week was put into a savings pot.
Linear homogeneity implies that the capital stock and the size of the workforce will both grow (in percentage terms) by exactly the same amount.
The majority of the workforce in Mali is centred on agriculture, with women performing a significant amount of the work.
Overall, services account for almost two-thirds of the workforce, with a smaller proportion employed in industrial activities and a negligible amount employed in agriculture.
