CSO figures suggest Irish workers here generated €105 worth of value for every hour they worked in the second quarter, more than any other group of workers
A barista serves take away coffee to a customer. It is difficult to measure the productivity of a barista with a worker in a tech company. Photograph: iStock
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So no matter how productive our aforementioned baristas are they won’t generate the same sort of “value-add” while making €3 coffees. Put another way, a sloucher in Apple will always be more productive than a highly-efficient, workaholic coffee shop attendant. So as a high-tech and big pharma hub, Ireland will naturally rank highly in the productivity charts whereas a country trading predominantly in traditional foodstuffs or tourism will rank lower.
“A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output per worker,” he says.
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