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Even assuming a return to baseline immigration in 2029, the current slowdown in immigration will likely have long-run impacts on business formation and productivity.

Productivity apps have become essential in modern work, helping users manage tasks, streamline workflows, and stay focused throughout the day. With the rise of AI focus tracking, Pomodoro timers, and collaborative boards, productivity tools are now smarter and more adaptive than ever.

There are a lot of ways I trick myself into meeting my goals, like coming up with various rewards and punishments for myself or outsourcing my progress tracking to apps. In general, I’m a deeply goal-oriented person and I am, for better or worse, obsessed with “winning”—which I always thought made me a perfect candidate…

As the productivity app market evolves from feature-based competition to value-driven growth, global developers are seeking clear and actionable insights to navigate this transformation. Today, SocialPeta, in partnership with Mega Digital, officially released the Productivity app marketing trends 2025 report. Leveraging a database of 1.6 billion ad creatives and real-time data from over 70 countries,…

McKinsey finds 92% of companies plan to increase AI spending, but only 1% describe themselves as mature. kboodl founder Rebekah Kirkwood argues the gap is not technology but unoptimized workflows: repetitive formatting, manual document recreation, and systems that consume employee time instead of saving it. She estimates employees lose at least five hours weekly to…

When it comes to the performance benefits of artificial intelligence, the vast majority of executives expect to realize results later on, a new report says.

Labor productivity gains over the past three years helped the U.S. economy expand steadily, even with near-zero employment growth. Combined with substantially increased business investment in artificial intelligence technology, these conditions have raised the question of whether the economy is entering a high-productivity growth period. Two well-known productivity measures do not yet provide strong evidence…

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