[hazyc]

productivity is such a nebulous concept in knowledge work - an amalgamation of mostly-qualitative measures that get baked into quantitative measures that are mostly just bad data

[adverbly]

economic productivity is absolutely not nebulous. Its a measure of GDP per hour worked.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-productivity-per-ho...

[mr_toad]

And in a business you can easily measure total profit and divide by total hours worked.

When you try and break it down to various products and cost centers is where it comes unstuck. It’s hard to impossible to measure the productivity of various teams contributing to one product, let alone a range of different products.

[reactordev]

You can thank agile for that

[janwirth]

You don't seem to like agile, whatever that word even means.