Their primary focus is staff costs, so farming out labor-intensive services would be the obvious solution.
Other labor-intensive jobs, like attaching radiator hoses and pumps, is farmed out to suppliers .
Colleges are labor-intensive institutions, with somewhere between 60% and 75% going for salary and fringes.
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At the same time, farming was hugely labor-intensive, tying up almost half the American workforce.
Some are therefore more labor-intensive than others, just as the workmanship in some is of higher quality.
Within this decade, we will see 3D printers doing the small-scale production of previously labor-intensive crafts and goods.
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Installing the equipment is costly at first--but handling and protecting cash is itself a costly and labor-intensive process.
Companies making heavy stuff like steel in huge, labor-intensive factories dominated U.S. industry.
That's because grain prices also are strong, and also because cotton is an expensive and labor-intensive crop to raise.
With factories across the region, the company concentrates its high-end work in Hong Kong and labor-intensive production in China.
This vogue got started a decade ago in Europe, when France's antiquated, labor-intensive sea-salt industry was at a low ebb.
But he is also right in seeing that the old way of moving white goods was too labor-intensive to survive.
Managing 15 assistants and overseeing his many labor-intensive projects requires creativity as well as equal parts discipline, precision and consistency.
And while recycling appears to be the automatic safe option, critics complain that recycling is too labor-intensive, energy-intensive and costly.
The firms may end up licensing these technologies to manufacturers worldwide, with the labor-intensive work occurring in countries such as China.
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Chef Richard Sandoval, who owns Mexican and Mexican fusion restaurants across the US and abroad, suggests labor-intensive dishes like tamales.
By the end of this decade, we will see 3D printers doing the small-scale production of previously labor-intensive crafts and goods.
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The demand for labor has risen as a response to the large, positive terms-of-trade shock that drove resources to labor-intensive non-commodity sectors.
It turns out, though, removing mug shots from florida.arrest.org is not as labor-intensive or arcane a process as the reputation companies claim.
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Making stuffed animals is labor-intensive stuff, and wages are high in Germany.
Today, bioengineering typically relies on labor-intensive trial-and-error processes to develop new designs.
The other families abandoned it as too labor-intensive and not lucrative enough.
Harvesting wild rice, really an aquatic grass unrelated to rice, is so labor-intensive and the rice so fragile that it's expensive outside Minnesota.
In other words, it is a report arguing for a model that is more ambitious, more labor-intensive, and riskier, without the promise of outright success.
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Health, education and hotels (the top three overall) have the highest rates of female employment, while more manual labor-intensive sectors have lower female employment rates.
He added that sawmills aren't as labor-intensive as they used to be, which means there likely won't be the same level of hiring as before.
More than 70% of China's exports can be defined as labor-intensive.
The provision of most health services tends to be very labor-intensive.
Consider too that the labor-intensive process will be difficult to monitor.
He points to the transformation of the agriculture industry in the U.S., which was once labor-intensive and is now much more efficient despite having fewer employees.
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