An employee perspective on Productivity

Thrugelmir

Dird wrote: »

The biggest struggle with the jobs I've had in the UK is trying to look busy the other 7 hours per day once the 30 minutes of stuff is out the way.

Sounds like much of the public sector.

buglawton

Someone who's too clever for their job is called an 'underachiever'.

Eric_the_half_a_bee

CLAPTON wrote: »

what we can be absolutley certain is that the low increase in productiviy in recent years, has absolutely nothing to do with the massive inflow of cheap labour.

If you want to understand the trend in UK productivity, just muse on the fact that 20 years ago, all car washes were automated, whereas now they are done by hand at roughly the same cost in real terms.

[Edit: I now see kabayiri has made the same point above]

p00hsticks

Eric_the_half_a_bee wrote: »

If you want to understand the trend in UK productivity, just muse on the fact that 20 years ago, all car washes were automated, whereas now they are done by hand at roughly the same cost in real terms.

[Edit: I now see kabayiri has made the same point above]

And 40 years ago, people would have saved money by washing their own cars rather than paying for a machine or a person to do it

Thrugelmir

p00hsticks wrote: »

And 40 years ago, people would have saved money by washing their own cars rather than paying for a machine or a person to do it

Would have repaired and serviced their cars too. What happened to Haynes manuals? No need for expensive diagnostic machines and technicians.

Thrugelmir

mwpt wrote: »

Well, I'm getting a very confused message here. We magic up productivity by making us all poorer by devaluing GBP which is good because we can compete internationally and our workers wages will rise and they will be more productive but it's bad because Carney is doing it on purpose to make everyone poorer and prove that he was right all along because he is an egomaniac and a sociopath.

It is hard to keep up with the spin.

What spin? A very basic concept. Increase output. Increase profitability. Results in affordable pay rises that reflect actual effort put in.

AnotherJoe

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Would have repaired and serviced their cars too. What happened to Haynes manuals? No need for expensive diagnostic machines and technicians.

Yebbut they would have repaired and serviced it every few weeks. I am old enough to recall that when you went on holiday, which of course was a long drive down to Devon where horses were waiting to tow cars up steep hills they couldnt manage, it was necessary to give your car a full service before setting out on that 250 mile journey.

Nowadays its one service every 10k miles, not 40 !

buglawton

There are many parts of the economy that can slide between being done professionally or being done in ones spare time/at home.

DIY and child care are 2 examples.
With 20% being charged on many building, kitchen, bathroom projects on top of tradesmens income tax, no wonder Brits divert their energies and thoughts to DIY.

If large home project VAT was cut in half there might be a boost to both productivity and the economy!

bugslet

AnotherJoe wrote: »

Nowadays its one service every 10k miles, not 40 !

All my vans service schedule is 18,000. The trucks are on something like 100,000 ( inspection every 8 weeks).

I'm terribly old school and get them done more frequently.

Malthusian

I do like this brand of nostalgia.

"Computers were so much better 2,000 years ago. They never crashed or caught viruses and they booted up instantly."

"That's because they consisted of a bunch of beads on little wires."

"They never crashed though!"

"Are you typing this post on an abacus?"

"No, it fell apart from woodworm in 1992. Ah but twas a fine abacus so it was."