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  1. New workplace practises hinge on increased productivity

    Labour productivity grew at a relatively slow 0.88 per cent average annual rate from 2016 to 2019. ...

  2. Government growth ultimately hits Canadians in the wallet

    In businesses that only produce services, labour productivity increased by 38 per cent compared to 12 per cent in the government sector. ...

  3. Achieving the Four-Day Work Week: Essays on Improving Productivity Growth in Canada

    Surveys of Canadians have shown a strong desire for reduced work hours with a four-day work week being a highly prized goal. This is hardly surprising given that leisure time is a valuable good for most people. To be sure, a four-day work week would be ...

  4. Governments should cut red tape to spur COVID recovery, achieve four-day workweek

    Fewer resources dedicated to complying with excessive regulation would free up substantial amounts of time and money. ...

  5. Productivity growth key to four-day work week in Canada

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, July 15, 2020 A recent study from the Angus Reid Institute found that a majority of Canadian adults feel it’s a good idea to make a 30-hour work week standard in Canada. Support is highest (64 per cent) at the lowest levels of ...

  6. Canadian workers can achieve four-day work week by doubling productivity growth

    Appeared in Vancouver Province, June 3, 2020 When businesses across Canada begin to reopen as the COVID lockdown slowly lifts, many businesses will stagger hours and reduce the number of employees in confined workspaces. But in fact, the idea of ...

  7. Waning U.S. productivity growth threatens Canada’s economic health

    The U.S. Labor Department recently reported that U.S. nonfarm business productivity—the goods and services produced for each hour worked by American workers—decreased at a 0.5 per cent seasonally adjusted annual rate over the period ...

  8. Warning for Canada—government red tape burdens U.S. productivity

    The U.S. economy is enduring a dismal stretch of low productivity growth. It was recently announced that labour, measured as the total output of goods and services for each hour of labour, declined at a one per cent seasonally adjusted ...