By Jasmine Browley ·Updated May 8, 2023
It looks like we’re getting less and less productive generationally.
According to research from EY-Parthenon, the U.S. has now had five consecutive quarters of year-over-year decreases in productivity. This is based on an analysis of data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, and not since 1948 has a decline of this magnitude happened before.
“When you have an environment in which output