Can productivity rescue the global economic recovery?
Are economies making the most of their human and material resources? Through most of modern history, we’ve assumed that progress in technology and efficiency will make every person employed and our work more productive over time. Is this a hopeful trend? Is it still holding true? Will it hold true throughout the 21st Century?
This special episode of Productivity Puzzles has been produced in conjunction with The Conference Board, non-profit business membership and research group organisation based in New York. For a change, The Productivity Institute’s Managing Director Bart van Ark is not hosting, but is instead being interviewed about global productivity by The Conference Board’s CEO, Steve Odland.
The topics covered in this episode include globalisation, the role of governments in facilitating productive companies, the diffusion of technology, labour shortages and whether productivity growth is linear.
Our guests:
- Steve Odland, CEO of The Conference Board
- Bart van Ark, Managing Director of the Productivity Institute and Professor of Productivity Studies at the Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester
For more information on the topic:
- The Conference Board, Global Labor Productivity 2022: Stagnating, But Still Above Prepandemic Levels, 2022
