This headline is alarmist and the article itself is designed to manipulate people unfamiliar with the productivity metric or its recent movement. Note that the

This headline is alarmist and the article itself is designed to manipulate people unfamiliar with the productivity metric or its recent movement. Note that the article and the graph are about the % change in productivity... which spiked sharply during the pandemic and has now returned to the growth line it was on prior. Here's the fed numbers: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OPHNFB https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OPHNFB The productivity drop the OP is referring to is that little blip downwards at the end. Hell, here's the Fed asking a year ago if the pandemic boosted productivity: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/07/has-the-pandemic-boosted-labor-productivity/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/07/has-the-pandemic-boo... Basically all the chatter in these comments are irrational speculation, based on a false premise, and flatly wrong.