a people-intensive business or organization needs a lot of people to make it run correctly:
• Schools are people-intensive. They need pupils and they need staff.
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people-intensive UK US adjective (also labour-intensive)
► HR if a task or organization is people-intensive, it needs a lot of people to do the work involved, especially compared to the profit made: »
Success in a people-intensive business comes from hiring the right people.
Financial and business terms. 2012.