I question the validity of such a study but I’m not complaining being told I’m productive
It’s easier to deal with situations when when you don’t turn the word into a sentence.
I think there has long been a culture there of giving jobs to people based on what area they are from rather than what work they actually do.
Seems the hardest working lads from there are driving up and down everyday to Dublin and Drogheda, building hotels and Data centres.
If you’re not including giant pallet bonfire construction in your productivity index then you’re missing a huge chunk of all labour activity in NI
Ireland’s productivity is always a bullshit metric. It’s calculated by dividing the GDP by number of workers to calculate ‘gross value’ per worker.
As we all know Ireland’s GDP is massively inflated by multinationals routing cash through us, cash that never actually touches our economy and isn’t generated by our workforce.
When you see that the sectors with the largest productivity growth are the likes of Finance and Scientific Research you know the number is artificially inflated.
Odd Ireland ended up far less affordable for the average man on the street.
Whilst this is undoubtedly true, there are other metrics at play also. A Lot of our employers are UK based, think banks, tech, construction consultants and have their headquarters registered in London, Glasgow, Manchester etc. so it does give a bit of a skewed result
Our Tayto is still better.
I don’t know whether these numbers are accurate – but I’m strongly opposed to ‘ranking’ countries by ‘productivity’.
I can already see from some of the comments, that some people’s nationalism perking at this but… I mean, does it not strike anyone else as late stage capitalism nightmare hellscape stuff?
Well the North has never been self-sufficient. It’s been artificially kept alive by Britain, so this isn’t exactly shocking.
Isn’t the public sector a huge portion of jobs in the North?
I have an English friend who works in the British public sector and he complains regularly that his co workers do fuck all and there no punishment.
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Less shouting, more doing.
I’m sure brexit will improve things for them
I question the validity of such a study but I’m not complaining being told I’m productive
It’s easier to deal with situations when when you don’t turn the word into a sentence.
I think there has long been a culture there of giving jobs to people based on what area they are from rather than what work they actually do.
Seems the hardest working lads from there are driving up and down everyday to Dublin and Drogheda, building hotels and Data centres.
If you’re not including giant pallet bonfire construction in your productivity index then you’re missing a huge chunk of all labour activity in NI
Ireland’s productivity is always a bullshit metric. It’s calculated by dividing the GDP by number of workers to calculate ‘gross value’ per worker.
As we all know Ireland’s GDP is massively inflated by multinationals routing cash through us, cash that never actually touches our economy and isn’t generated by our workforce.
When you see that the sectors with the largest productivity growth are the likes of Finance and Scientific Research you know the number is artificially inflated.
Odd Ireland ended up far less affordable for the average man on the street.
Whilst this is undoubtedly true, there are other metrics at play also. A Lot of our employers are UK based, think banks, tech, construction consultants and have their headquarters registered in London, Glasgow, Manchester etc. so it does give a bit of a skewed result
Our Tayto is still better.
I don’t know whether these numbers are accurate – but I’m strongly opposed to ‘ranking’ countries by ‘productivity’.
I can already see from some of the comments, that some people’s nationalism perking at this but… I mean, does it not strike anyone else as late stage capitalism nightmare hellscape stuff?
Well the North has never been self-sufficient. It’s been artificially kept alive by Britain, so this isn’t exactly shocking.
Isn’t the public sector a huge portion of jobs in the North?
I have an English friend who works in the British public sector and he complains regularly that his co workers do fuck all and there no punishment.
Do they take smuggling into account?