page_title: Workforce productivity
hierarchical_section_title: Workforce productivity
caption_attribution_description: Labour productivity computed by me as Gross Domestic Product in current prices at current exchange rates per employee. Data used are from: Ameco-data base of EU-Comission offices
context_page_description: Workforce productivity is the amount of goods and services that a group of workers produce in a given amount of time. It is one of several types of productivity that economists measure. Workforce productivity, often referred to as labor productivity, is a measure for an organisation or company, a process, an industry, or a country.
  Workforce productivity is to be distinguished from employee productivity which is a measure employed at individual level based on the assumption that the overall productivity can be broken down to increasingly smaller units until, ultimately, to the individual employee, in order be used for example for the purpose of allocating a benefit or sanction based on individual performance.
  In 2002, the OECD defined it as "the ratio of a volume measure of output to a volume measure of input". Volume measures of output are normally gross domestic product or gross value added, expressed at constant prices i.e. adjusted for inflation. The three most commonly used measures of input are:
  hours worked, typically from the OECD Annual National Accounts database
  workforce jobs; and
  number of people in employment.
context_section_description: Workforce productivity is the amount of goods and services that a group of workers produce in a given amount of time. It is one of several types of productivity that economists measure. Workforce productivity, often referred to as labor productivity, is a measure for an organisation or company, a process, an industry, or a country.
  Workforce productivity is to be distinguished from employee productivity which is a measure employed at individual level based on the assumption that the overall productivity can be broken down to increasingly smaller units until, ultimately, to the individual employee, in order be used for example for the purpose of allocating a benefit or sanction based on individual performance (see also: Vitality curve).
  In 2002, the OECD defined it as "the ratio of a volume measure of output to a volume measure of input". Volume measures of output are normally gross domestic product (GDP) or gross value added (GVA), expressed at constant prices i.e. adjusted for inflation. The three most commonly used measures of input are:
  hours worked, typically from the OECD Annual National Accounts database
  workforce jobs; and
  number of people in employment.
caption: Labour productivity US, Japan, Germany
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