Best in brief: Helping Britons work smarter

Dominic Casserley

Argues that British productivity is lower than in France, Germany or US, and the problems relate to working practice and process.

Best In Brief

Helping Britons work smarter

Dominic Casserley

UK workers are not as productive as their counterparts in other leading developed nations. Chancellor Gordon Brown believes that innovation ,which  he has put at the centre of his economic policy for growth, will improve productivity, announcing a ten-year review of scientific innovation alongside the DTI's innovation strategy. Will innovation alone close the gap? Not so, according to a McKinsey study.

Compared with France, Germany and the US Britons produce less output for every hour worked. They work hard and long but they ...

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