Productivity

NEWS ANALYSIS

To AI executives, we’re all just ‘meat computers’

This comparison has not landed well with a public anxious about the artificial intelligence future

What is increasingly needed is AI bilingualism: the ability to understand AI’s capabilities, limitations and risks.

The real AI race is for deployable talent, not models

Scaling the tech’s positive impact will require work redesign, applied learning, cross-sector collaboration

Nonfarm productivity, which measures hourly output per worker, increased at a downwardly revised 1.8 per cent annualised rate last quarter.

US Q4 productivity growth revised sharply lower

Productivity grew at a 2.5% rate from a year ago

Germany’s economy contracted for two consecutive years in 2023 and 2024, and its industrial output has fallen sharply.

A stronger work ethic won’t fix advanced economies

Capital deepening, technological progress and total factor productivity growth help advanced economies expand and remain competitive

Nonfarm productivity, which measures hourly output per worker, increased at a 2.8 per cent annualised rate last quarter after rising at an upwardly revised 5.2 per cent pace in the third quarter.

US productivity slows in fourth quarter

Unit labour costs increased at a 2.8% rate last quarter

Moh Yan Ting, managing director of Freshening Industries, says: "We are working while we sleep, letting the machines run overnight... This results in greater supply and efficiency."

Freshening Industries, maker of Zappy wet wipes, boosts productivity with round-the-clock automation

Its new Loyang facility is 3.5 times bigger than the previous plant and features a smart shuttle storage hub that lifts output by over 50%

Nonfarm productivity, which measures hourly output per worker, increased at an unrevised 4.9 per cent annualised rate.

US Q3 productivity growth unrevised

Productivity grew at an unrevised 1.9% rate from a year ago

President Alexander Stubb says "resilience” is a part of Finnish DNA.

Can quality of life be a superpower? Ask Finland

Bank of Finland governor Olli Rehn calls on all of Europe to ‘get its act together’

No doubt, AI is important. Yet it’s unlikely to dramatically change the nation’s long-term economic outlook.

Will AI be an economic net positive? Probably not

It’s hard to see how AI’s effects will cure the US government’s unsustainable fiscal trajectory