The labor shortage has affected many sectors of the economy, from high-tech to manufacturing and cleaning. The war brought a wave of tens of thousands of evacuees from the southern and northern settlements, and most of them are temporarily housed in hotels.

Cleaning robots are one of the fastest growing segments in the robot market. One of the lines of robots that found a surprising use in the war are tele-presence robots. These robots allow a person to "be present" in a place without being physically there.