Sentence examples for workforce about from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Dow is divesting $4 billion in assets and announced in December it would cut 11% of its workforce, about 5,000 jobs, and close 20 plants in high-cost locations.

Ariba, which makes Internet commerce software, scrapped a planned merger with Agile Software, said it would lose money rather than earn the small profit that was expected, and will cut a full third of its workforce, about 700 employees.

Though they still make up only a small percentage of the overall U.S. workforce (about 2.8%), remote workers – and flex-time employees – are more and more becoming a reality for employers.

"There was a negotiation with the workforce about wage freezes.

62. Nurses make up the largest part of the NHS workforce, about 410,615.

There is understandably some trepidation within the Northcliffe workforce about the possible outcome.

We've gone from an expat workforce of about 1,000 to about 400.

That's about 8percentt of Starbucks' current European workforce of about 30,000.

"At the end of 2009 we reported a workforce of about 304,000.

The steel mill gradually slashed its workforce to about 3,000.

The new losses will reduce Blackberry's 12,700-plus global workforce by about 40%.