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estimate-laboring.md

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+title: Estimate Laboring
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-title: Labor Factoring
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-# Labor Factoring
+# Estimate Laboring
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+In construction estimating,
+**laboring** is the process of calculating the labor hours required
+to install takeoff material.
+
+## Labor Factoring
+
+**Labor factoring** is the adjustment of base labor hours
+to account for adverse or beneficial working conditions.
+
+Labor factors are most often used to increase labor,
+but decrease is also possible,
+especially efficiency gains due to repetitive work.
 
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 ## TODO
 
 Discuss purpose and practice of labor factoring,
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 ## Going Further
 
 Base labor units suggest a highly functional nature,
-most sensitive to weight.
+most sensitive to _weight_.
 Greater understanding of this relationship would make practical
 the prediction of labor of unstudied items.
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