Managers can sometimes forget making tiny cost savings in this way reduces overall productivity.
"People will enjoy using sound for a while, but I question the overall productivity in business applications."
Work ethic in art especially, can have a significant impact on one's overall productivity elsewhere.
"Although at any one time there is less biomass, overall productivity is higher."
Interestingly enough, the service industries where overall productivity did not grow were hotels, health, education and entertainment.
We're not doing it in detail on individual activities, but we're getting the overall productivity correct.
But ever since the early 1970's, the gap in overall productivity has narrowed far more slowly.
After the first oil shock in 1973, Japan's overall productivity growth rate fell from 10 to 3 percent a year.
This would then lead to higher wages for the worker and improved overall productivity which helps sustain economic growth.
The upward movement in overall productivity reflected the short term.