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Add to Google Preferred Sources Britain’s economic productivity is showing its first sustained improvement since the 2008 financial crisis, according to new estimates from the Resolution Foundation. Output per hour worked grew at an average annual rate of 1.1% over the two years through June 2026, reversing a 0.7% annual decline in the prior two-year…

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Increasing productivity has been close to an article of faith for successive chancellors and one of the few economic ambitions that crosses party lines.

Companies operating in today’s environment have many opportunities to improve efficiency and productivity. They actively leverage modern technology, real-time analytics, automation, cloud services, and artificial intelligence. 

LSE economists, two of them Treasury advisers until recently, put UK productivity growth at “an annualized productivity growth of 1.6 per cent between 2024 Q3 and 2026 Q1, compared with only 0.3 per cent over the decade preceding 2024 Q3”. The tax records underpinning that finding show employment falling by 133,000, where official statistics report…

The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has stated the federal government’s economic reforms have delivered measurable microeconomic gains that have laid the foundation for investments and economic growth.

UK productivity growth has staged a marked recovery over the past two years, according to new Resolution Foundation analysis that suggests the economy is performing better than traditional labour market measures imply.

For eighteen months, ministers and NHS chief executives have repeated a single figure so often it has become a kind of incantation. Two per cent. That is the annual productivity gain the health service has been told to find, year after year, as the price of its settlement, the proof that reform is working, the…

There is a number that Indian IT companies increasingly like to talk about: revenue per employee. It is a useful number because it tells us how much money a company is generating from every person on its payroll. And right now, that number is rising across the country’s biggest IT services companies.

Despite years of investment and growing adoption, artificial intelligence has yet to deliver measurable improvements in productivity or employment outcomes at most organisations, according to a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).