> In the first half of 2022, productivity — the measure of how much output in goods and services an employee can produce in an hour — plunged by the sharpest ra

> In the first half of 2022, productivity — the measure of how much output in goods and services an employee can produce in an hour — plunged by the sharpest rate on record. Given the sharpness of the drop, the timing with wonkiness in a whole slew of other economic indicators, it's bizarre to me that the author (and experts interviewed) would immediately assume that something changed with workers vs the metric is behaving weirdly.