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Outside a few highly skilled tech cities, rises in output per person contributed little to GDP.
The economy keeps on looking stronger, not weaker, with this week's figures showing healthy rises in output and consumer spending, and a jobs market where vacancies match applicants for the first time in 13 years and wages are rising at last.
The Bank of Scotland's latest PMI report showed the slowest rises in output and new work for six months.
The Bank of Scotland PMI report suggested there were rises in output and new business, while backlogs grew.
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Economists expected a 0.2% rise in output across the region.
That marked the first rise in output since the third quarter of 2011.
But looking ahead, more firms expected a fall than a rise in output in the next three months.
The only bright spot was construction, which delivered a 0.3% rise in output.
Computer makers enjoyed a 53% rise in output over the same period.
Because Germany has an export-based economy, this contributed to a fast rise in output.
Industrial output dropped 0.3% during the month, startling economists who had expected a 0.3% rise in output.
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