current workforce

collocation in English

meaningsofcurrentandworkforce

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current
adjective
uk
/ˈkʌr.ənt/us
/ˈkɝː.ənt/
of the ...
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workforce
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˈwɜːk.fɔːs/us
/ˈwɝːk.fɔːrs/
the group of people who work in a company, industry, ...
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(Definition ofcurrentandworkforcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcurrent workforce

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There is a limit to how much more pressure thecurrentworkforcecan take.
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As concluded in the study's findings, international recruitment is a short-term measure in helping alleviate thecurrentworkforcepressures in the national health service.
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It is essential to promote companies’ competitiveness through innovation, flexible production practices and by providing thecurrentworkforcein the industry with vocational training and further education.
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This will be done through workforce planning mechanisms, which provide an analysis of thecurrentworkforce and of current and future recruitment and retention issues.
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It would be a tragedy to see the results of those efforts offset by increasing redundancy in thecurrentworkforce.
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Whether thecurrentworkforceis of the right capacity in terms of numbers or of the right level of skill is impossible for me to judge.
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Therefore, instead of turning youth employment into an unrealistic buyer's market, perhaps we ought to be using more of our resources to train thecurrentworkforce.
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One third of the thencurrentworkforceof 226 people got a raise.
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Thecurrentworkforceis about 4,000 people.
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On the other hand, thecurrentworkforcemust be trained or re-trained so that they can adapt to the new green economy.
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