Labour

People, staffing or worker input required for a task. Groundskeeping is a very labour-intensive occupation, which has significantly benefited from improvements in equipment and machinery design helping to reduce the stress imposed on operators carrying out physical tasks as well as improving efficiency and productivity of tasks carried out. Automation is helping to reduce the labour requirements of some tasks in some situations, for example line marking or mowing through autonomous robot machines. This also allow labour to be redeployed to other tasks, which is especially pertinent considering the staffing shortages that appear to be present within the grounds care industry in 2023.