workforce
Let an agent explain the workforce as a concept and its measures, relay labour statistics and workforce planning frameworks from official sources, describe composition and trends with attribution, and distinguish workforce from population and from employees of one organisation.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the workforce as a concept and its measures, relay labour statistics and workforce planning frameworks from official sources, describe composition and trends with attribution, and distinguish workforce from population and from employees of one organisation.
The people engaged in or available for work in an economy, sector, organisation or region, also called the labour force, including employed and unemployed people seeking work, and analysed by composition such as age, gender, skills and origin, as in ageing workforces, foreign labour, the feminisation of workplaces, the educational workforce and health workforces; workforce planning and statistics inform policy and management.
What it is for: Not applicable; the people who do the work of an economy or organisation.
It can be explain the concept and measures; relay statistics and frameworks; describe composition and trends; distinguish related concepts.
Distinguishing features
Employed plus unemployed
Measured by surveys
Composition analysis
Planning object
What it looks like
Not a visible object; a population counted in statistics.
Physical character
global labour force: about 3.5 billion people - ILO estimate
How it is recognised
People engaged in or available for work
Economy, sector, organisation or region scale
Population includes non-workers; staff are one organisation employees
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is measured by - official statistics
is planned by - in organisations and sectors
is related to - where it is employed
In practice
Families and kinds
national and global workforces
sector workforces such as health and education
organisational workforces
foreign and migrant labour
ageing workforces
workforce composition by gender, including feminisation
Identifiers
ILO indicators labour force participation and others
Standards and regulation
ILO statistical standards for labour force measurement
National labour force surveys
Employment and immigration law for foreign labour
Workforce planning frameworks such as WHO health workforce guidance
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing workforce with population or employment
Unsourced statistics
Presenting contested labour policy as settled
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Concept What the workforce is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition and measures.
Definition
Definition.
- What is the workforce, and how is it measured in labour statistics? definition
- Is the question about a national workforce, a sector or one organisation? boundary
Composition
Composition.
Composition
Composition.
- How is workforce composition analysed by age, gender, skills and origin? definition
- Which entry fits the specific composition topic? action
Data Statistics.
Sources.
Statistics
Labour statistics.
Statistics
Statistics.
- What do labour force statistics show for a given country or sector, with sources? measurement
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Trends
Trends.
Trends
Trends.
- What trends such as ageing, feminisation and migration shape workforces, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Plan Planning and policy.
Practice.
Planning
Workforce planning.
Planning
Planning.
- How do organisations and sectors plan workforces, such as health workforces? provenance
- Which entry fits workforce planning? action
Policy
Policy debates.
Policy
Policy.
- What policy debates exist about foreign labour, retirement ages and skills, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Context History and future.
Context.
History
History.
History
History.
- How have workforces changed through industrialisation and service economies? provenance
- Which entry fits labour history? action
Future
Automation and change.
Future
Future.
- How are automation and demographic change expected to affect workforces, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits the future of work? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should health workforce and foreign labour be separate entries?
- How should ILO and national data be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming sector and composition topics; should they be split off?