Infrastructure and Transportation

If companies truly cared about worker health and productivity they would be first in line to fund - via taxes - sustainable and quality infrastructure. #ProductivityLost

Housing: Where You Live Matters

People's access to housing is starkly unequal and plays into all aspects of their life, including their work productivity potential. #ProductivityLost

Location: Where You’re From Matters

Where you're from is a major factor in determining what jobs you can get and what opportunities you can seize. #ProductivityLost

Productivity and Geography

Beginning a new section on how productivity is influenced by - and influences - worker productivity. #ProductivityLost

Productivity and Incarceration

There's tremendous untapped productivity in those who were formerly incarcerated but now want to make a living. #ProductivityLost

Productivity and Disability

If you’ve filled out a job application you’ve likely had to check the box next to a question along the lines of “Do you attest you are physically capable of performing the duties listed in the job description?”. The question makes sense given that if the job requires someone to lift a 50 pound box, …

Productivity and Caregiving

When we talk about someone being a “caregiver” within a family dynamic it’s usually a fancy way of saying they are parents caring for their children. That’s a narrow synonym, though, that discounts how complicated the title has become. 40 million people in the U.S., according to the AARP’s Public Policy Institute, are providing basic …

Productivity and Worker Race/Ethnicity

If the situation for women is less than ideal, for people of color it’s even worse. As the economy “improved” in 2018 and 2019, the unemployment rate went down and stayed under four percent for several months and wages started to creep up, though as we’ve seen those raises were unevenly spread around and still …

The Neverending Work Years

A big part of the traditional career path included what was essentially a finish line. While some fortunate souls could retire early, most people could at least count on winding down their working years around 65 or 70, buoyed in their later years by some mix of company pensions, private saving and Social Security benefits …

A Non-Traditional Career (and Life) Path

To start off with, the traditional career path Baby Boomers and older Gen Xers enjoyed is not nearly as prevalent or common as it once was. There have been countless studies, op-eds and other debates about whether “job-hopping” is more common among Millennials than it was in previous generations. Much of that debate gets bogged …