productivity

Big productivity gains resulted.

What might be preventing higher productivity growth?

Bishop herself never ceased to find her productivity inadequate.

Europe's railways have also shown marked, albeit smaller, productivity improvements.

Certain irrigation practices degrade soil quality and reduce agricultural productivity.

They also argued that measures of productivity ignore what would have happened without investments in IT—productivity gains might have been even lower.

Toward the end of the 1980s, some economists spoke of a "productivity paradox": despite huge IT investments, most notably in the service sectors, productivity stagnated.

Yet traditional measures of manufacturing productivity have shown significant increases despite the under measurement of quality, whereas service productivity has continued to stagnate.

Absenteeism and lateness hurt productivity and, since work was specialized, disrupted the regular factory routine.

It has enabled Americans to be extremely productive, and productivity itself is highly valued in America.

It cost the country $4 million in lost productivity .

high productivity levels in manufacturing