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Mandy Brown with a reminder about how fuzzy language can be. It’s relative to the speaker and the listener!

When workers talk about increasing their productivity, they often speak of getting more work done in the same amount of time […] But when companies talk about productivity, they are much more likely to be talking about the cost of the work. The descriptions are, at some level, equivalent, but they emerge from very different political standpoints and have entirely different impacts on people’s lives.

When it comes to increasing productivity, one man’s “more work in less time” is another man’s “fewer workers”.