More or Less

More or Less

Perhaps we should have headlined this opinion piece “More With Less.” When it comes to staffing service industries, is that what’s happening, doing more with less? Or is it doing less with less?

Productivity — that’s doing more with less: increasing economic output with fewer hours dedicated to the task. One way to measure pandemic-related productivity — and “pandemic-related” is the reality of the times in which we live — was included in a recent New York Times article about the “pandemic productivity boom.” The Aug. 10 article stated, “Since the pandemic recession bottomed out in the spring of 2020, […]

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