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Discover LudwigThe phrase "idle workforce" is correct and usable in written English
It refers to a group of people who are not actively working or productive, either due to lack of work or motivation. Example: In the aftermath of the economic crisis, many companies were forced to lay off employees, leaving an idle workforce with limited job opportunities.
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Idle hands".
Idle hands are great.
Tourism, which dominates the economy, offers only seasonal employment, with much of the workforce idle during the winter.
And the economic argument against keeping half the workforce idle is conclusive.And then there is the issue of Islam, swept to the fore by recent events.
Roughly 25% of the workforce sat idle.
And when Robert J. McLaughlin, a top executive at the Imperial Sugar Company, was born in December 1932 at the nadir of the Great Depression, a third of the workforce was idle.
Two-thirds of the workforce is idle (compared with one-fifth before), either because they cannot go to jobs in Israel, or because local businesses have closed for lack of supplies and markets.
Two-thirds of the workforce is idle, either because they cannot go to jobs in Israel, or because local businesses have closed for lack of supplies and markets.The West Bank, partitioned at gunpoint into some 60 Palestinian islands, fares little better.
But let's be clear that real waste is what happens when big chunks of the workforce sit idle, not producing goods and services.
Over a third of South Africa's workforce is now idle.
Officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration say the government shutdown did not affect the salmonella investigation, but 60percentt of the agency's workforce has been idled.
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