Canada

What stood out to me in this article was:

The OECD paper also found a link between productivity decline and stagnating human capital development. Since 2003, young citizens of OECD countries have underperformed on standardized tests in science, math and reading.

This is why we need strong provincial policies supporting our youth, and this is something that the next 10 years I think will punish us and the US especially hard on.

Without educating and motivating our kids, we don’t have a strong economic future. Immigrants are kind of a bandaid, our youth (and the children of these immigrants) need to be engaged and motivated and educated to become ~efficient~ productive.

If quality of life can't be factored into “productivity”, then it's a failed system designed only to benefit a minority of people who are becoming excessively wealthy off the work of others.

From an employer’s perspective, the main factor influencing productivity is the number of hours worked.

This isn't the 1800s. When you look at the studies, where people are given a human-focused work schedule (i.e. fewer hours) with ample time to rest and recover (i.e. more time off), their productivity goes up.

The fact that we're seeing productivity go down is a symptom of how workers are treated, their lack of compensation for the time they take away from their family, and the burden on their health that working non-stop causes.

You can center workers, defense, or social safety net. Pick two.