The phrase "aid productivity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing ways to enhance or improve efficiency and output in a work or personal context.
Example: "Implementing new software tools can significantly aid productivity in the workplace."
Alternatives: "boost productivity" or "enhance productivity."
Still, the illusion that multitasking can aid productivity is powerful.
"Many companies, including Dow Jones, provide a car and driver to their busy CEOs to aid productivity and security," says Hoffman.
Early on, I learned to use the first spreadsheet program — a predecessor to Excel — and was struck by how technology could aid productivity.
John Philpott, the director of the Jobs Economist consultancy, said that while the post-Brexit period had proved calmer than many had previously thought, the prospect of leaving the EU was unlikely to aid productivity growth, which remains stuck at 0.4%.
Much like Slack used to claim to aid productivity until it became a self-replicating, attention-sucking virus, comms technologies work until they break from overuse (and/or corporate growth targets…).
Third-tier friend Tom's views on why pink grapefruit is superior to white don't aid productivity; in fact, Tom's posts distract you from your job-seeking mission or, alternatively, from time spent with friends or family.
Connectivity aids productivity.
Rail services can increase economic output by up to £10.2bn each year, by moving congestion off the roads and aiding productivity.
The fact that the average children's book is quite a bit more slender than, say, some Robert Caro doorstop no doubt aids productivity: any single volume of Caro's three-volume-and-counting Lyndon Johnson biography would probably contain enough words to fill up thousands of children's books, if you could write a children's book with the word "cloture" in it that anyone would want to read.
My office is above the garage, a five-yard commute every morning, and I think the subliminal proximity of tools and gardening equipment is an aid to productivity.
What matters is how the money is spent: London and the south-east receive a disproportionate share of the value-enhancing investment in infrastructure, while poorer regions become dependent on welfare spending which does nothing to aid economic productivity.
