The Great Speedup
If you feel like your workload has been piling up, you’re not alone: even as employment has remained dismal, GDP has rebounded to nearly pre-recession levels, Mother Jones reports in a new piece about the American workday.
That means that fewer people are doing the same amount of work. In fact, productivity has consistently risen since the 1980s— this isn’t a recent trend, it’s just coming to a head.
According to Mother Jones, a speedup comes from a time when people worked on factory lines.
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