Rhonesha Byng loves her job, but a cubicle-free, open-office environment created problems. "The distractions made it a little difficult for me to really focus in on getting stuff done," said Byng, a ...

If Sherlock Holmes were to take on the case of the mysteriously dwindling productivity, he would have a complex enigma on his hands. According to a recent report by the Institute for Corporate ...

Something hasn't been happening lately that has left economists baffled: The major investments made over the past decade in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and other technology advancements ...

Labor productivity is a key, if often overlooked, economic indicator that policymakers use to gauge the health of the economy and guide fiscal and monetary policy decisions. But the U.S. has seen a ...

When does your workday start? Is it the moment you leave your apartment for the subway? When you read your first Slack message while waiting for coffee in your office building lobby? Or is it when you ...

First an economic mystery, and then an economic paradox — both from an Up Wing perspective. In the early 1970s, there began a significant measured slowdown in American technological innovation, ...

Kenya’s economic debate is often framed around taxes, debt, and elections. Yet a quieter, more stubborn challenge is increasingly shaping corporate balance sheets and public finances alike: weak ...

The ever-popular production possibilities frontier, or PPF, puts productivity in the terms that I’m confident many Georgetown students are familiar with. Picture the top-right quarter of any circle — ...

Last month, I wrote about the fact that economists are having difficulty finding evidence that the technology advances of the past decade or so have produced any meaningful increase in productivity ...