workforce

The workforce is the total number of people employed or available for work within a specific region or industry. It is a key economic indicator that reflects the labor supply and is influenced by factors like demographics, technology, and economic conditions.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news due to significant shifts, including a decline in the American workforce, the impact of AI on employment in Southeast Asia, and challenges in expanding the workforce for new industrial projects.

Latest on workforce

• Trump’s call for fifth shipyard likely to run into cost, workforce hurdles: Analysts
• AI threatens nearly a quarter of Southeast Asia’s workforce but not all is lost
• What We Learned Tracing North Korea’s Hidden Workforce Inside American Companies
• How Filipino virtual assistants are dominating the global remote workforce
• The size of the American workforce has fallen by over 1 million people in the past year. Here’s what’s going on.
• China’s AI drive threatens the world’s largest workforce
• How many of your internal communication strategies were designed for a workforce that no longer exists?
• The region commands 10 per cent of global GDP, controls critical supply chains, and possesses over 500 million people, a workforce larger than the European Union.
• Billions are flowing into India's AI infrastructure while the people supposed to operate it are still learning what it does
• preparing professionals for an economy transformed by AI poses a greater challenge than building the technical infrastructure
• When your board approves the next AI infrastructure investment, who in that room is accountable for explaining it to the workforce that might be displaced by it?
• Commentary: What if AI retraining is just a comforting lie?

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