productivity

Beyond causing bloating, straining, and infrequent bowel movements, it can also interfere with daily life by increasing stress, reducing productivity, and lowering overall quality of life.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026

Some tech startups offer free pouches as an employee perk to boost productivity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

This comes at a time of rising productivity and a booming stock market.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

The company claims its AI tools reduce hospital admissions by up to 70% and its robots boost care teams' capacity by 20% and productivity by up to 80%.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Pieces such as Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring or Orff’s Carmina Burana, for example, would not be good choices as they are likely to promote agitation and frenetic activity rather than concentration and productivity.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

That, in turn, allowed firms to meet a given level of demand by using more workers less intensively—at lower productivities.

From Economist ● Feb. 17, 2014

Over the long run, technology sets potential productivities, which govern the wages workers can earn.

From Economist ● Jan. 22, 2014

For instance, Japanese steel, metal, car, car parts, camera, and consumer electronic companies compete fiercely and have higher productivities than their U.S. counterparts.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Of course, there are also the famous differences between the productivities of the economies of whole countries, such as Japan, the United States, France, and Germany.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

For expository reasons we can take social subsistence and productivities as purely constant.

From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus