Britain's Productivity Puzzle

Are British workers lazy? What is productivity and why is Britain so bad at it? What is productivity and why are we in Britain even worse at it than France, Germany and America when it wasn't always like that but it is now?

Output per worker per hour. That was the question on the BBC Victoria Derbyshire programme. Surely all those non jobs created by this government are part of the reason as well as all the part time work and zero hours  contracts. People have been pushed into a lot of all this stuff just to get them off the unemployment register so they must undoubtably skew the figures. More people doing less work.

Lets face it what is the incentive for people to put their shoulder to the wheel and show real commitment when that commitment isn't coming back in the form of decent pay and conditions and the prospect of a long term job at the end of the day? It's on BBC Iplayer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02w0wsb

Even David Brent types get a mention in this.

I think this is probably one of the most important question UK has to ask itself and find a solution to, if it want to keep up with the rest of the developed world

veya_victaous wrote:I think this is probably one of the most important question UK has to ask itself and find a solution to, if it want to keep up with the rest of the developed world

Agree. Going to work and doing the minimum you can is no way to work. You should be paid well, but not for pretending to work. That being said, sometimes it's because employers would rather have plenty of cheap labour rather than paying for good equipment and then paying employees more for the skills required.