as in staffs
a body of persons at work or available for work
the office's entire workforce is devoted to a single project right now
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Recent Examples of workforces
By 2050, most people will command workforces larger than the biggest multinational corporations of today.
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Erik Brynjolfsson, Time, 2 Jan. 2026
At the beginning of 2025, the World Economic Forum reported that 41% of organizations were planning to trim their workforces in the face of rapidly advancing AI.
—Gabby Burlacu, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025
Shin focuses on human capital, analyzing the different ways Asian economies have developed their workforces.
—Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
With its large tourism, agriculture, construction and entertainment industries, the state depends heavily on temporary and mobile workforces.
—Joan A. Reid, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025
These ten extraordinary projects collectively represent hundreds of billions of dollars in investment and decades of construction effort, employing cutting-edge tunnel boring technology, advanced geological surveying, and massive workforces.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Dec. 2025
Job cuts in industries with large immigrant workforces have squeezed finances, as has a broader cost-of-living crunch.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
Communities, schools, and workforces are all shrinking at an alarming rate.
—Sarah McCammon, NPR, 2 Nov. 2025
CEOs like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg have said AI will be able to accomplish lower- to -mid-level staffers’ work in the near future and hinted at AI’s impact on their workforces long-term.
—Sarah Jackson, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workforces
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The news and editorial staffs of the Orange County Register had no role in this post’s preparation.—
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Both teams have staffs working virtually non-stop to make sure all needs are accounted for, but the issues persist.—
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This first three-dimensional cross-sectional image goes 11 miles) below the crater and shows what appear to be various pools of magma at different depths, with rock or other material between them and more numerous toward the southeast of the crater.—
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Critics argue that AHPs may segment the market by attracting healthier people, thereby undermining ACA risk pools and increasing costs for sicker enrollees.—
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That measure, pushed by SEIU-UHW, a labor union representing many of the state’s health care workers, would impose a 5% tax on people with $1 billion or more in assets.—
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An analysis by the National Association of Home Builders estimates tens of thousands of homes aren't being completed because there aren't enough workers.—
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Universities have long balked at the idea that their athletes are employees in some way.—
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Her family later learned that on April 23, 2021 — the day Parker found his aunt in a bleak mood — Dee had an angry confrontation over financial issues with two employees of the trucking company.—
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“Workforces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workforces. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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