Productivity

In its relentless drive to bring everyday items to customers faster, Amazon has shifted expectations from two-day delivery to same-day and even within an hour. Now, with robots, artificial intelligence and even eyewear, it is working to pare seconds off each delivery.

The AI boom has some startups embracing a hustle culture phenomenon that originated in China.

Streetscapes may be headed for a major makeover.

It’s a food brand, a hardware startup, a logistics operation. In short, Tovala has to get a lot of things right at once.

With the rise in the demand for the 4-Day Work Week, being assessed on tasks completed – not hours spent working, the message is clear: People want to work less.

US economic growth is exceeding that of other G7 countries largely due to high worker productivity.

From Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk, the most successful people in the world share one thing: they allocate time in the day to learning.

Welcome to March Madness, when a confluence of non-fans, casual fans, and hardcore fans clutch their brackets and wait -- and in the process, worker productivity becomes secondary.

Most of the companies in a U.K. trial were so pleased with the results — improved wellbeing, lower turnover, greater efficiency — they've made the four-day workweek permanent.

The result has been an unexpected productivity boom, which helps explain a great economic mystery: How has the world’s largest economy managed to remain so healthy, with brisk growth and low unempl…

Brickit is an app that scans your pile of bricks, identifies every piece in it, gives you ideas what to build with them with step-by-step instructions and lets you share the things you make with other enthusiasts.

U.S. productivity rose at a 4.7% annual clip in the third quarter, the highest since the third quarter of 2020, the government said Thursday.

The Autocado created by Chipotle and Vebu Labs could cut the prep time for the burrito chain's guacamole in half.

Join us as we change the future of work! The 4 Day Week is a reduced-hour working model, which seeks to prioritise working smarter to produce better productivity in less time.

New data shows why it can be so hard to get things done.

“I’m sorry, Dave”… I might take your job. Walmart said it expects 65% of its stores to be serviced by automated distribution centers by the end...

The handheld cellphone is 50 years old and has become an essential multi-tool that helps us run our lives. But is it altering the way our brains work?

Three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote and hybrid work are as popular as ever. Only 6 percent of employees able to do their jobs remotely …

A recent study published in the journal Sleep suggests that the simple act of wearing an eye mask to block out light while sleeping can improve cognitive function the next day. In two experiments, the researchers found that participants who slept with an eye mask showed enhanced episodic memory encoding and alertness the following day. ...

Thursday’s the new Friday?... The four-day workweek is #trending. Driving the hype: one of the largest trials of a four-day workweek ever conducted....

If we ace one more short workweek test, boss says we can have a pizza party outside.

A shorter week improves job satisfaction and doesn’t come at the cost of productivity, according to one study.

The productivity plunge is perplexing, because productivity took off to levels not seen in decades when the pandemic forced the switch to remote work. But that growth spurt was short-lived, even as companies shifted to hybrid models, in part because employees argued that the flexibility helped them work more efficiently.

The huge gap between rising incomes at the top and stagnating pay for the rest of us shows that workers are no longer benefiting from their rising productivity. Before 1979, worker pay and productivity grew in tandem. But since 1979, productivity has grown eight times faster than typical worker pay (hourly compensation of production/nonsupervisory workers).

In the first quarter of 2022, U.S. worker productivity fell in the steepest drop in 74 years. WSJ’s Jon Hilsenrath explains why productivity is central to th...

The productivity pay gap. Workers are more efficient than they used to be, but wages haven't kept up. Streaming saturation. How many streaming services are too many? Sonos. If you can't beat 'em...