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American worker productivity has record decline
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2022 Oct 31, 1:19pm 698 views 7 comments
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AmericanKulak
2022 Oct 31, 1:21pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Oct 31, 1:21pm
Good, let the decline in productivity match the decline in after inflation wages.
Let debt owners pay for a change.
Let debt owners pay for a change.
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Al_Sharpton_for_President
2022 Oct 31, 1:28pm
Al_Sharpton_for_President
2022 Oct 31, 1:28pm
The productivity plunge is perplexing, because productivity took off to levels not seen in decades when the coronavirus pandemic forced an overnight switch to remote work
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AD
2022 Oct 31, 2:33pm
AD
2022 Oct 31, 2:33pm
Even mainstream media don't believe their own bullshit that remote workers increased productivity.
Biden made some statements in 2021 about how he hoped their would be increases in wages for the working class and lower middle class, as those increases are long overdue. We got some wage increases but we did not get much productivity improvements.
I see employers at least making salary cuts to those who want to work remote and not hybrid (on site and remote). And I see also employers reducing staff count for locations that employ lower middle class and working class. They are going to expect employees to do more with the same amount of salary and benefits.
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Biden made some statements in 2021 about how he hoped their would be increases in wages for the working class and lower middle class, as those increases are long overdue. We got some wage increases but we did not get much productivity improvements.
I see employers at least making salary cuts to those who want to work remote and not hybrid (on site and remote). And I see also employers reducing staff count for locations that employ lower middle class and working class. They are going to expect employees to do more with the same amount of salary and benefits.
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Shaman
2022 Oct 31, 3:07pm
Shaman
2022 Oct 31, 3:07pm
Perhaps hiring all this diversity staff and diversity managers and useless eaters is contributing to this lack of production?
Everyone knows a bunch of people at their company who appear to do very little aside from checking some political box.
Everyone knows a bunch of people at their company who appear to do very little aside from checking some political box.
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Shaman
2022 Oct 31, 3:22pm
Shaman
2022 Oct 31, 3:22pm
Anecdote here. So I got a call to take a political survey and decided to go for it. The lady giving it sounded African American and we were interrupted several times by a kid crying.
I’m just gonna guess she’s working from home.
I also suspect that given the tight labor market, employers are hiring and retaining people who aren’t up to a normal standard. That could be reducing overall productivity as well.
I’m just gonna guess she’s working from home.
I also suspect that given the tight labor market, employers are hiring and retaining people who aren’t up to a normal standard. That could be reducing overall productivity as well.
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AD
2022 Oct 31, 4:38pm
AD
2022 Oct 31, 4:38pm
Shaman says
An "anecdote here" is just one data point. We need more "anecdotes here" like that to assess a pattern or trend. Thank you.
I agree with cisTits as software work can be quantified just like my line of work in engineering (i.e., PE in mechanical engineering), as reports and calculation pages can be quantified. Obviously not as easily quantified as in manufacturing where they can more effortlessly track the cost per unit.
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Anecdote here.
An "anecdote here" is just one data point. We need more "anecdotes here" like that to assess a pattern or trend. Thank you.
I agree with cisTits as software work can be quantified just like my line of work in engineering (i.e., PE in mechanical engineering), as reports and calculation pages can be quantified. Obviously not as easily quantified as in manufacturing where they can more effortlessly track the cost per unit.
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Patrick
2022 Nov 1, 9:48am
Patrick
2022 Nov 1, 9:48am
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-deep-sleep-state/
We Americans cannot be topped in our capacity to fleece the taxpayer.
I witnessed one such act on summer vacation and marveled at its creativity and simplicity. No double books or fake service orders needed, just a coffee mug and a laptop. When a mug bearing the logo of a Maine campground is placed in the middle of a keyboard just so — handle facing in, screen tilted back — the letter “h” will appear in a Microsoft Word document, and be typed non-stop for the next eight hours. The federal contractor’s work avatar will remain green, suggesting that she is online. She does not have to take a vacation day. Uncle Sam will be billed accordingly.
All that effort — from the careful placement of the mug to the vigilance required to shoo children away from the keyboard — may have been unnecessary. An internal audit obtained by Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Patrick Hauf revealed that an estimated 25 percent of workers at one federal agency did not open their email or department software in the first nine months of the pandemic. The agency in question was, unfortunately, the Department of Health and Human Services, which ostensibly “leads the federal public health and medical response during public health emergencies.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-workers-have-gotten-way-less-productive-no-one-is-sure-why/ar-AA13zbIT
In the first half of 2022, productivity — the measure of how much output in goods and services an employee can produce in an hour — plunged by the sharpest rate on record going back to 1947, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The productivity plunge is perplexing, because productivity took off to levels not seen in decades when the coronavirus pandemic forced an overnight switch to remote work, leading some economists to suggest that the pandemic might spark longer-term growth. It also raises new questions about the shift to hybrid schedules and remote work, as employees have made the case that flexibility helped them work more efficiently. And it comes at a time when “quiet quitting” — doing only what’s expected and no more — is resonating, especially with younger workers.
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