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“This strategic initiative will optimize the capacity of our network to align with expected volume levels and enhance productivity through additional automation.”

"The productivity has gone down. The trees are not flowering and fruiting the way they used to. Rain fluctuation has disrupted the shea tree's natural cycles," he said.

Upper management at these companies tend to distrust their employees, she said, and hold “outdated definitions of productivity” — an approach that, naturally, makes employees resentful and inhibits healthy communication.

The government said in the 2024 Autumn Budget that it would seek to fund any pay rises above what departments have budgeted for not by raising taxes or more borrowing but by "productivity improvements".

They say that companies are measuring people’s productivity and performance more closely, and that they are shifting resources toward artificial intelligence investments.