Productivity – Page 5

Regulation and why More Productivity Isn’t Always Better

Safety and environmental rules may reduce gross domestic product. But maybe that’s OK.

Why was America — and not just America — better at building in the 1970s?

The rise in turnover since the pandemic started has a cost in productivity: “It’s taking longer to get stuff out the door.”

Ascension, one of the country’s largest health systems, spent years cutting jobs, leaving it flat-footed when the pandemic hit.

Digital technology has transformed work, often for the worse. Here are some solutions.