In March last year, I gave a speech about the urgent need to improve Canada’s productivity. I said that instead of thinking of productivity as some obscure economic statistic, we need to think of it ...

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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 ...

The Productivity Commission defines productivity as "a measure of the rate at which output of goods and services are produced per unit of input (labor, capital, raw materials, etc.)." Productivity has ...

In my work at the Bank of Canada, I often have the opportunity to meet with Canadians and Canadian businesses to better understand what’s happening in the economy at a grassroots level. Productivity ...

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Every person on the planet has the exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day. The challenge for all of us is how we choose to use that time. In this ...

It can be hard to make the most of your time when you’re running a business, especially when you’re wearing a lot of different hats and trying to complete a lot of different tasks. There are others ...

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 ...

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 ...