To make the region competitive again, ASEAN's leaders must raise workers' productivity and cut costs across the production value chain, thereby boosting demand, foreign direct investment and exports.
17 This often means that asking workers is not sufficient for valid observations as most workers' productivity is interrelated with colleague workers' productivity due to, eg, team production and time sensitivity of individual outputs.
Rather, one would need to explore the impact on other workers' productivity, through their compensation for the sick employee's loss of production.
Can sound really enhance office workers' productivity?
That would raise workers' productivity and, eventually, wages.
Jobs have not followed growth, the committee wrote, because of increases in workers' productivity.
They could thus measure correlations between particular supervisors and workers' productivity.
In Britain, in contrast, tumbling demand has been matched by a strange decline in workers' productivity.
One reason is that Brazilian workers' productivity does not justify further rises.
Wage rises should start to reverse that trend, boosting investment and workers' productivity.
A cheaper currency would help match wages with workers' productivity, for a while at least.
