Every month the BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics] releases its worker-productivity numbers, which measure output per labor hour worked, says Celeste Monforton, a former Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) staffer. Montforton, now at the George Washington University School of Public Health, points out that the numbers go up every month. And thats because businesses are not hiring new workers; theyre just expecting the old workers to work more, and spitting them out after they get injured. Some of these gains come from the adoption of new technologies, but others just come from pushing workers harder.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 09:46:16 +0000
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