Working Hard....or Hardly Working?
I stole this exerpt from somewhere else.
Productivity Increases. The surface media always trumpets the latest increases in worker productivity, as though this is good news for anyone other than big business. For most ordinary people, increased productivity simply means that they have been working harder and longer for the same amount of money. Looking at it another way, increased productivity means that your real wages are dropping.
Proof of the negative in “productivity increases” is that it is usually accompanied by increases in the number of homeless people and people without health care. Obviously, more people would be employed if the other workers were not so damn “productive” by doing the jobs of two people for the price of one!...........
posted by ajparrillo at 7:36 AM
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or most ordinary people, increased productivity simply means that they have been working harder and longer for the same amount of money.
To me, this is incorrect. Being more productive simply means doing the same amount of work in less time, certainly not longer, nor necessarily harder.
The second paragraph brings forth an interesting point. With all of the advances in computers and machinery, it is necessary (to remain productive) to only hire individuals with the skills required to operate said computers and machines.
To me, this is incorrect. Being more productive simply means doing the same amount of work in less time, certainly not longer, nor necessarily harder.
I have known many, in my and other professions, that are on salary and have been required, incrementally, to do more auxilary work or take on more projects. Also, the lack of cost of living pay increases results in increased productivity, as does reduction of benefits.
More work in the same amount of time is essentially the same thing as the same amount of work in less time.
If you include pay as part of productivity, then yes, you get increased productivity for not having cost of living pay raises.
I think of productivity like this:
Productivity = (Amount of Work)/(Time Worked)
In terms of Pay, it would be like this:
WageProductivity = (Amount of Work)/(Time Worked)/(Wage) Where wage has to be relative to inflation.
See, math is easy :)
productivity is directly proportionate to how much they give me to work on.
if i have nothing to do, i do even less.
if i'm swamped, i'm very efficient.
and angry.
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