Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush

Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by dmix on Sunday February 04, 2018 @11:22AM (#16303330)

The chart he linked to shows a very weak correlation between smartphones/productivity, even as a single data point...

https://bankunderground.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/chart.pn...

There was an even larger drop in the late 1970s (what caused that?) and the dip started around the time of the recession in 2008 as well which must have had a large impact.

There were very likely many causes to productivity and I'd be curious to see what the major historical drivers predating the modern smartphone/financial crisis era dip.

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by cma on Sunday February 04, 2018 @12:29PM (#16303675)

> There was an even larger drop in the late 1970s

Women began entering the labor force en masse. Way more employees available = less productivity unless you can invent a bunch of new needs immediately.

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