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Production downtime and factory productivity are closely correlated, as a factory can lose up to 20% of its productivity due to downtime. The most common cause of production downtime is a malfunction ...

U.S. labor productivity initially surged in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the massive economic upheaval. As the economy recovered, the level of productivity retreated to its slow ...

Early in the pandemic, I received an e-mail from a reader who embraced my writing about the importance of deep work and the need to minimize distractions, but was thrown by my use of the term ...

The right software will increase your team’s productivity rather than decrease it, helping to speed up workflows and eliminate repetitive tasks. Since there are more productivity apps on the market ...

Ask any economist and he or she will tell you that faster productivity growth leads to higher real wages and improved living standards. So, from those perspectives, the recent evidence of strong ...

THE PROSPECTS for a productivity resurgence may seem grim. After all, the past decade has featured plenty of technological fatalism: in 2013 Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist, mused of the ...