The labor market will be tight through the end of the decade, making employee recruiting and retention difficult. Boosting the output of employees is the best strategy for coping with the difficult ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever been angered about the entire sum of your work being reduced to the “billable hour,” apparently things have gotten worse for many workers. The New York Times recently published an ...

Being successful in business generally requires you and your team to remain productive and use time, money, and talent efficiently. And it is especially important as we adjust to new ways of living ...

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 ...

Labor productivity is a key building block of the US economy. It’s also the first thing that business decision makers look towards when determining the long-term health of their own operations and how ...

Thirty years ago, the U.S. entered an era of productivity gains that enabled healthy growth. Experts are asking if it could happen again. By Jeanna Smialek The last time the American economy was ...

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 ...

Every electrical contractor must look closely at not only their estimating department’s production, but also their productivity. Production is defined as the act or process of producing. In estimating ...