We were taught maths at school once. What's this"half of half" business? Can't you understand "quarter" any more?
Half of half of the U.K. productivity puzzle has been solved - ONS were over-estimating hours of work and under-estimating holiday timehttps://www.ft.com/content/017a99aa-fc72-11e8-ac00-57a2a826423e …
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Fair point...what I mean is UK "productivity puzzle" has two parts (not exactly equally sized) - one puzzle is why UK productivity has persistently been lower than in other advanced economies, the other puzzle is why productivity growth has flat-lined over the past decade
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This new research only helps explain (part of) the first puzzle
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Isn't the "puzzle" usually a reference to the post-crisis UK productivity growth collapse, rather than the longstanding level gap relative to France?
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That was what my second "half of" referred to. Lots of people are careful to distinguish the two puzzles about UK productivity - why it has persistently been lower than other countries and why it has grown so slowly since the crisis. This only helps with the first.
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apologies Gemma - my tired brain could plainly not process the double "half of" - bit like the double "the" in this:pic.twitter.com/O2xcAPB7vY
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Total rubbish. Working out of hours and remotely/on smart phones should be taken into consideration.
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In theory it is - ppl are asked how many hours they actually work, not contracted hours.
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The problem is that Brits don't like to moan and we generally don't talk about work that is done outside working hours. Sending a few e-mails in the evening while watching TV is not considered work by most. It adds up though.
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But more hours put in with same output means lower productivity per hour.
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Which is my point. The "new" way of looking at productivity is nonsense if only hour spent in the office are taken into consideration.
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Think the ONS should have put a few more hours in
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Surely the headline should be UK Statistical Agency Guilty of Massive Proficiency Gap Behind European Counterparts
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The massive increase in the bureaucratic burden over the past ten years never seems to get mentioned in these productivity studies.
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Isn’t it about time someone looked to see if ONS is fit for purpose?
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So the mystery of the "lack of productivity" of British workers is being solved? It's yet another statistical glitch, from the ONS - an organisation that should be doing betterhttps://twitter.com/gemmatetlow/status/1072396077800787968?s=20 …
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Every now and then I get the train home from Waterloo at 4pm. It's always rammo. Always used to make me wonder whether Londoners really work the long hours they were reputed to!
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I get the 16.28 from Liverpool Street which is quite busy, but nowhere near as busy as the 06.01 I get in the morning to be at my desk before 7.00. We're just early birds, partly due to being an hour behind mainland Europe.
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Can confirm, my London friends all seem to work 5am to 5pm. One thing I can say is they work bloody hard.
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But the point here was that we don't work as long as previously thought.
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