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Three economists have looked at whether better data actually raises output, and they don’t agree. All three measured what data did to output at real firms, which is a different question from what a sales productivity software supplier claims its product will do for you.

As artificial intelligence influences more day-to-day operations across investment organizations, public pension fund sponsors report being cautious about its use for investment functions and plan administration, according to a recent National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems study.

WASHINGTON (Aug 6): US worker productivity grew faster than expected in the second quarter and further gains are likely as businesses invest in artificial intelligence, which is expected to keep wage inflation contained.

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Add to Google Preferred Sources AI is everywhere — in headlines, earnings calls, and government budgets — yet the economist who literally wrote the book on how progress ends is now warning that the productivity payoff will disappoint. Carl Benedikt Frey, Oxford professor and author of *How Progress Ends*, argues on the Trumponomics podcast that…

Productivity—it’s quite the buzzword these days. Popular podcasts are built entirely around the topic, and the corporate world has gone mad trying to measure it in its employees. That is a large reason why people use AI—it has been touted as being able to increase productivity. But because corporate America and AI companies don’t seem…

Does the composition of public research and development (R&D) investment matter for productivity outcomes? By using a local projections method to estimate dynamic responses for macroeconomic productivity outcomes to changes in R&D composition, the authors present new evidence on this question. In particular, they find that increases to basic research spending generate the greatest returns,…

Most productivity advice tells you to pick one app and stick with it. That works until you actually try to run a week of real work through a single tool. Tasks pile up in one place, your calendar lives somewhere else, your notes drift into a third app, and the connective tissue between them is…

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A small but fast-growing share of American workers are doing two full-time jobs at once. They aren’t necessarily con artists and many aren’t running themselves into the ground. But they are finding ways to complete the work expected of them while earning two salaries, raising questions about how employers define productivity and a full-time workload.