In 2018, a New Zealand-based entrepreneur named Andrew Barnes began an eight-week experiment at his finance company, Perpetual Guardian. He offered all employees a four-day, thirty-two-hour week with ...

US factory production declined in April for the first time in six months, marking a soft start to the second quarter for ...

Factory output dropped 0.4% last month after an upwardly revised 0.4% gain in March, the Federal Reserve said on Thursday.

The escalating economic and geopolitical confrontation between the US and China in 2025 reflects a deeper clash of strategic ...

Several studies have attempted to model the effects of climate change on the economy, with varying results. But one fact ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has defended his claim Labor will need at least three terms to effectively address Australia's declining productivity.

Alan Kohler published a stinging critique of the Australian economy, which he described as a “basket case”: Productivity is declining and housing is unaffordable. Economic growth depends entirely on ...

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The Labor Department released a report on Thursday showing a pullback by U.S. labor productivity in the first quarter of 2025 along with a sharp increase by unit labor costs.

Productivity is tied to worker wages, so a drop can be cause for concern. Labor productivity in the U.S. dropped in the first ...