Productivity Is At The Lowest It’s Been For Workers Since 1948 And WFH May Be To Blame

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

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