We were struck by the assumption made by an article in The McKinsey Quarterly this month. Called “Why US Productivity Can Grow Without Killing Jobs,” it takes as a given that this would strike readers as counterintuitive. Could it really be that businesses could become more productive and yet not find themselves with excess workers standing around? What a conundrum!
The More Things Change, the More They Don’t Stay the Same
We were struck by the assumption made by an article in The McKinsey Quarterly this month. Called “Why US Productivity Can Grow Without Killing Jobs,” it takes as a given that this would strike readers as counterintuitive. Could it really be that businesses could become more productive and yet not find themselves with excess workers […]
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