Q3 Productivity and Costs: Nonfarm Productivity +4.7% vs. +4.1% expected and +3.6% in Q2 (revised from +3.5%). Output gained 5.9% and hours worked advanced 1.1%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover logistics and supply chain management. Across the trucking industry, labor productivity increased 4.7%. Labor productivity ...

Q2 Productivity and Costs: Nonfarm Productivity: +3.5% vs. +3.6% consensus, compared with +3.7% in the previous estimate and -2.1% in Q1, the Department of Labor said Thursday in its quarterly ...

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The numbers: Worker productivity, one of the biggest drivers of a strong U.S. economy since the pandemic, stumbled in the first quarter of 2025, for the first time since the second quarter of 2022.

While employers remain concerned about remote work’s impact on employee productivity, many employers do not measure or reward productivity — and some that do largely leave it up to manager discretion, ...

Imagine a world where the workweek is only four days long. You’d have an additional day free to run a household, spend time with loved ones, devote time to hobbies, or rest. For many workers globally, ...

Millions of people around the world are food insecure. This is not due to an inability to feed the world’s growing population, but an inability to institute the proper infrastructure to ensure equal ...

Worker productivity has been a hot-button issue in 2023, with many laying the blame for its decrease on remote work. Worker productivity has been a hot-button issue in 2023, with many laying the blame ...