workforce

All the employees

The workforce is the total pool of people available for or engaged in work.

It can refer to a nation's entire working population women entering the workforce or to the employees of a particular organization The company laid off half its workforce.

Workforce implies labor as a collective resource.

composition

employees

Paid staff members

headcount · demographics · diversity · age · gender · generational · millennials · boomers · immigrants · veterans

labor

employment

Paid occupation status

white-collar · union · skilled · unskilled · manual · hourly · salaried · payroll · shifts · overtime

management

recruitment

Seeking new personnel

development · onboarding · turnover · attrition · engagement · performance · scheduling · planning · analytics · HR

economics

unemployment

Being without paid work

shortage · surplus · outsourcing · offshoring · automation · displacement · wages · compensation · benefits · costs

organizational

teams

Organized cooperative groups

structure · collaboration · coordination · morale · culture · leadership · supervision · communication · cross-functional · distributed

Categories
Opposites
factors of production

workforcecapital

Wealth used for investment

machinery · equipment · automation · technology · robots

economic agents

workforceemployers

Those who hire staff

management · ownership · capitalists · proprietors · bosses

employment status

workforceunemployed

Without a job

retirees · dependents · jobless · pensioners · students

Family

workforces

Familiarity
Top 50,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G