It was the memo heard around the world: In late February, when Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer ordered the company's staffers to stop working from home, she set off a ferocious debate over workplace ...

Many workplace productivity assumptions no longer fit knowledge work. Here are four persistent myths about hours, busyness, distraction and productivity systems.

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 ...

Productivity Concepts and Definitions The word productivity first time appeared in literature in 1766. According to Sumanth (1990, p. 01), the term productivity was probably first time used by French ...

Australia’s productivity growth has reverted to the same stagnant pattern as before the pandemic, according to the Productivity Commission’s latest quarterly report. Productivity is complex and often ...

Traditionally, productivity is defined as the amount of work produced in a given time period. In today’s world, however, this definition is no longer relevant. After all, it is increasingly difficult ...

This article is part of The Conversation’s series looking at Labor’s jobs summit. Read the other articles in the series here. One word gets mentioned more than “jobs” and more than “skills” in the ...

A few days ago, The New York Times published a very interesting column by my colleague Ezra Klein about America’s peculiar lack of progress in the art of building things. Drawing on a recent paper by ...

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 ...