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

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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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