Greetings Decision maker,
If Sherlock Holmes were to take on the case of the mysteriously dwindling productivity, he would have a complex enigma on his hands. According to a recent report by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), worker output in the U.S. has seen its worst drop since 1947, with labor productivity growth at a historically low rate of 1.1% from 2019 to 2023.
This phenomenon isn’t localized to the U.S. The UK and Canada have seen the weakest annual growth since 2013, and Australia has witnessed its “biggest fall in labor productivity on record.” This global productivity predicament has instigated a plethora of theories, and the one that looks most likely is that top-down, forced return-to-office policies that undermine trust and autonomy are making workers less productive.
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I was really worried about the assassination attempt against Donald Trump. It’s terrible that political violence at the highest level is rearing its ugly head again in the US, with the last US President injured in an assassination attempt being Ronald Reagan in 1981. And it’s very saddening to see the blame games starting up immediately after the attempt, even before anything about the shooter’s motivations was known - in fact, we still don’t know what’s going on with the motivation nearly two weeks after the attempt. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just come together and focus on unifying to condemn political violence? Certainly, many politicians did focus on unity and condemning the violence without the blame game, but too many did not, making
baseless accusations. Clearly, there are powerful incentives for them to do so, otherwise they wouldn’t do it. How can we change the incentives of our political dynamics to incentivize unity and disincentivize such baseless accusations? I’m hoping the Pro-Truth Pledge will help.
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Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
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