That’s bollocks, I managed to finish Skyrim in just one week of working from home
I’m probably bringing down the whole average when I’m remote working, sorry lads
Probably did about 2 hours of real work this week
I’m replaying Fallout3, while commenting on Reddit, while ignoring a boring meeting in the background
A 16 per cent increase in productivity would lead to a 10 billion rise in GDP.
This would increase workers pay and profits.
He said.
It wouldn’t increase workers pay though, the workers know that. They’ve been here before.
>That figure, which excludes the value-add of workers in foreign-owned enterprises – considered distortionary – ranked Ireland and Irish workers last among a group of eight comparator countries in Europe behind Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Austria, Netherlands, Finland and Sweden.
So basically it’s just re-affirming that we’re heavily dependent on foreign-owned enterprises. Not ideal, but not anything new either.
I’d disagree but I’m on reddit and meant to be working right now
Going by the amount of time I waste in here, I’d have to say…hmm.
sorry cant read am working
So what it’s saying is we’ve got the best work/life balance of all those 8 countries? Amirite?
I worked my bolix off in multiple jobs ans never got rewarded, or got fucked over in some way, or people would take credit for my work.
I do the bar minimum in my job now and I’m healthier for it.
Your job isn’t your friend or your family no matter how many times they tell you. Clock in, clock out and do the bare minimum, if they’re not going to pay you what you deserve they don’t deserve your respect.
why should we work harder if we’re not getting rewarded harder?
Is it even about working harder, or about what we produce if we take out multinationals? As in, carrots aren’t as valuable as financial services or cars.
Weren’t the Irish the most productive a couple months ago. What mugs.
What on earth happened? Is it the good weather? The aurora borealis? The Eurovision?
Here we all are on Reddit during working hours
I’m like Peter Gibbons, I do fuck all but I haven’t been sacked yet
I don’t see the insensitive for hard work anymore. I’m 34, been in full time employment for 10 years. Saving hard. Living in a share house with 3 other adults and zero prospects for owning my own place.
I think we need another team meeting to discuss how we can improve productivity …
😎
Well for what it’s worth, I’m based in a tech company in NL and i might be generalizing things but the Irish have a strong reputation over here for being reliable and hard workers. Have heard this informally discussed from recruitment coworkers that in general we are even preferred over UK candidates.
I’m working right now.
So if you ignore the most productive part of our economy, we aren’t productive. What a load of bollocks
Perhaps if the tax system wasn’t so punishing this wouldn’t be the case. It’s only worth my while to work the first 3 days of the week, the rest is basically all taxed. Overtime? Haha, forget about it. 75% tax.
Hard work is getting people nowhere these days so why bother.
Absolute nonsense. One of the most overworked in the EU for sure.
*hse*
Good, actually? I’m not working out of some kind of pride or going to be subjected to shame by not being more productive. My bosses already get more out of me than they ought to.
Well that’s bullshit…. I say sitting at my desk scrolling reddit
A single study is useless. We need multiple studies that come the same conclusion.
Also, so what? Its not like being productive get the average worked anything. People can’t afford to buy a home and increasingly they can’t afford everyday essentials, due to the price gouging by companies.
Sure the increased productivity we have seen from workers the world over, has not been matched by an increase in wages for workers, and has just put the money in the hand of a tiny number of billionaires. Why should the average worker care about this nonsensical crap?
So before our productivity was super high but inflated because it included foreign MNCs, which report a lot of revenue here when the work isn’t being done here. However, these MNCs still employ a very large number of people here, so you cannot simply just exclude all that data.
Bottom line: all these metrics are just meaningless, and so is this bit of news.
Report is based on studies between 2017-2019? Not as if anything major has happened since then to affect worker productivity.
Can we read anything other than the headline ?
This data is irrelevant, the world of work is drastically different now to what it was in 2019
I’ve never been rewarded for being better than my co-workers, but I sure as fuck have been punished for it.
Fast efficient work is rewarded with more work. The most productive workers often get the hardest work, or the highest volume in work with little to no change in compensation.
That would fly in the face of pretty much every other productivity measure produced in the last 20 years, which consistently ranks Ireland as a highly productive economy.
Workers tend to act their wage.
Living rent free in Angela Merkels head.
If we just move to a 4 day working week we can bump up our productivity by 20%. I already do 4 days worth of work a week.
Good. Being productive when you’re not an owner is not worthwhile.
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Me? Lazy? I’ve never been so insul
That’s bollocks, I managed to finish Skyrim in just one week of working from home
I’m probably bringing down the whole average when I’m remote working, sorry lads
Probably did about 2 hours of real work this week
I’m replaying Fallout3, while commenting on Reddit, while ignoring a boring meeting in the background
A 16 per cent increase in productivity would lead to a 10 billion rise in GDP.
This would increase workers pay and profits.
He said.
It wouldn’t increase workers pay though, the workers know that. They’ve been here before.
>That figure, which excludes the value-add of workers in foreign-owned enterprises – considered distortionary – ranked Ireland and Irish workers last among a group of eight comparator countries in Europe behind Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Austria, Netherlands, Finland and Sweden.
So basically it’s just re-affirming that we’re heavily dependent on foreign-owned enterprises. Not ideal, but not anything new either.
I’d disagree but I’m on reddit and meant to be working right now
Going by the amount of time I waste in here, I’d have to say…hmm.
sorry cant read am working
So what it’s saying is we’ve got the best work/life balance of all those 8 countries? Amirite?
I worked my bolix off in multiple jobs ans never got rewarded, or got fucked over in some way, or people would take credit for my work.
I do the bar minimum in my job now and I’m healthier for it.
Your job isn’t your friend or your family no matter how many times they tell you. Clock in, clock out and do the bare minimum, if they’re not going to pay you what you deserve they don’t deserve your respect.
why should we work harder if we’re not getting rewarded harder?
Is it even about working harder, or about what we produce if we take out multinationals? As in, carrots aren’t as valuable as financial services or cars.
Weren’t the Irish the most productive a couple months ago. What mugs.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2024/04/03/irish-workers-twice-as-productive-as-eu-counterparts-cso-figures-show/#:~:text=Irish%20workers%20had%20the%20highest,Central%20Statistics%20Office%20(CSO).
I wonder has there been any change since a lot of people started working from home, I know WFH is more prevalent here than in other EU countries.
They are not wrong, I am at work since 7.50am and this is only my third reddit comment…those are rookie numbers compared to the rest of Europe…..
I tell my servants and staff this all the time, I’m glad someone is finally bringing this issue to the fore.
Odd when last year we were the most productive [https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2023/04/24/irish-workforce-among-most-productive-in-the-world-cso-report-finds/](https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2023/04/24/irish-workforce-among-most-productive-in-the-world-cso-report-finds/)
What on earth happened? Is it the good weather? The aurora borealis? The Eurovision?
Here we all are on Reddit during working hours
I’m like Peter Gibbons, I do fuck all but I haven’t been sacked yet
I don’t see the insensitive for hard work anymore. I’m 34, been in full time employment for 10 years. Saving hard. Living in a share house with 3 other adults and zero prospects for owning my own place.
I think we need another team meeting to discuss how we can improve productivity …
😎
Well for what it’s worth, I’m based in a tech company in NL and i might be generalizing things but the Irish have a strong reputation over here for being reliable and hard workers. Have heard this informally discussed from recruitment coworkers that in general we are even preferred over UK candidates.
I’m working right now.
So if you ignore the most productive part of our economy, we aren’t productive. What a load of bollocks
Perhaps if the tax system wasn’t so punishing this wouldn’t be the case. It’s only worth my while to work the first 3 days of the week, the rest is basically all taxed. Overtime? Haha, forget about it. 75% tax.
Hard work is getting people nowhere these days so why bother.
Absolute nonsense. One of the most overworked in the EU for sure.
*hse*
Good, actually? I’m not working out of some kind of pride or going to be subjected to shame by not being more productive. My bosses already get more out of me than they ought to.
Well that’s bullshit…. I say sitting at my desk scrolling reddit
A single study is useless. We need multiple studies that come the same conclusion.
Also, so what? Its not like being productive get the average worked anything. People can’t afford to buy a home and increasingly they can’t afford everyday essentials, due to the price gouging by companies.
Sure the increased productivity we have seen from workers the world over, has not been matched by an increase in wages for workers, and has just put the money in the hand of a tiny number of billionaires. Why should the average worker care about this nonsensical crap?
So before our productivity was super high but inflated because it included foreign MNCs, which report a lot of revenue here when the work isn’t being done here. However, these MNCs still employ a very large number of people here, so you cannot simply just exclude all that data.
Bottom line: all these metrics are just meaningless, and so is this bit of news.
Report is based on studies between 2017-2019? Not as if anything major has happened since then to affect worker productivity.
Can we read anything other than the headline ?
This data is irrelevant, the world of work is drastically different now to what it was in 2019
I’ve never been rewarded for being better than my co-workers, but I sure as fuck have been punished for it.
Fast efficient work is rewarded with more work. The most productive workers often get the hardest work, or the highest volume in work with little to no change in compensation.
That would fly in the face of pretty much every other productivity measure produced in the last 20 years, which consistently ranks Ireland as a highly productive economy.
Workers tend to act their wage.
Living rent free in Angela Merkels head.
If we just move to a 4 day working week we can bump up our productivity by 20%. I already do 4 days worth of work a week.
Good. Being productive when you’re not an owner is not worthwhile.