work force

His plan, he freely said, was radical: slashing the federal work force by 75 percent, 50 percent in Year 1, and eliminating large swaths of the federal government.

Last month, Pixar said it would stop making original shows for Disney+ as part of its retrenchment, and laid off 175 employees, or about 14 percent of its work force.

Management started to view the work force as a cost;

Though unemployment is low, there has been a sharp increase in the number people out of the work force because of long-term ill health.

In Japan, where the work force is shrinking, the machines reduce the need for cashiers and servers.