The Department of Labor reported Thursday that first-time claims for unemployment bumped up slightly last week: 226,000 filed new claims, up from 219,000 the week before. And during that week before — ...

Construction is a labor-intensive business. Despite tremendous advances in design, coordination, and management technologies, the physical installation of work in the field remains reliant on people.

With labor being the greatest risk in construction, a full understanding of labor components will provide the estimator with the ability to determine a project’s labor costs as accurately as possible.

The slide in Australia’s labour productivity – real gross domestic product per hour worked – has become a real concern. In the past year, labour productivity has fallen 4.6%. Unless it resumes growing ...

The key to economic progress is labor productivity growth—producing more stuff with the same (or fewer) number of workers. Unfortunately, America’s labor productivity growth has been weak for several ...

Objectives To assess indirect costs (IDC) due to lost productivity in paid/unpaid labour, stratified by sex, in a national ...

Australia’s productivity growth has reverted to the same stagnant pattern as before the pandemic, according to the Productivity Commission’s latest quarterly report. Productivity is complex and often ...

Domestic productivity in Ireland was steady at the end of 2025, new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show, with domestic labour productivity remaining above €57 since early 2023. Its ...

Employee productivity in Romania has increased by 17.5% over the past four years, according to an analysis by TPC Concept, ...

Labour productivity in the Netherlands rose 2.4% in 2025, the biggest annual gain in 20 years and a reversal of two consecutive years of decline, according to national statistics agency CBS. The Dutch ...