Just a reminder as on all articles like these - productivity refers to the economic definition of GDP per hour worked, not the colloquial one. So it isn't abou

Just a reminder as on all articles like these - productivity refers to the economic definition of GDP per hour worked, not the colloquial one. So it isn't about how hard people work, but rather which industries they have and how much value these add. So the lack of large tech companies being based in Europe and only a handful of high tech engineering companies probably really hammers at the productivity figures.