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Re:Amazon Is Selling Its 29-Acre Bay Area Property as Return... by mensetmanusman on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:23PM (#34588160)
The secret is that economists have no idea how to measure productivity.
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Re:Amazon Is Selling Its 29-Acre Bay Area Property as Return... by timr on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:51PM (#34588494)
Yours is probably the best rebuttal on the subthread. Measuring productivity is hard.

I do think this is something that is identified in aggregate, however. Maybe you can't attribute the loss in productivity to individual employees, but you definitely notice if projects start taking a lot longer than they used to.

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