productivity

But there is this challenge where you don’t want to cut it off and hinder productivity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The firm is investing in technology with the hope of maximising productivity.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

"AI might reverse this productivity slump that we have seen for the last 15 to 20 years in high-income economies," said Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, co-editor of WIPO's annual Global Innovation Index.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Cook noted that while productivity growth may ease inflationary pressures, the labor market will be at risk of entering a painful transition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

In reality, that’s not true: on the average across all industries, America’s industrial productivity is higher than that in either Japan or Germany.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

That, in turn, allowed firms to meet a given level of demand by using more workers less intensively—at lower productivities.

From Economist ● Feb. 17, 2014

Over the long run, technology sets potential productivities, which govern the wages workers can earn.

From Economist ● Jan. 22, 2014

Of course, there are also the famous differences between the productivities of the economies of whole countries, such as Japan, the United States, France, and Germany.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

For instance, Japanese steel, metal, car, car parts, camera, and consumer electronic companies compete fiercely and have higher productivities than their U.S. counterparts.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

For expository reasons we can take social subsistence and productivities as purely constant.

From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus