„In Polen könnte die relativ geringere Produktivität auch auf die Wirtschaftsstruktur zurückzuführen sein, nämlich auf den hohen Anteil des Baugewerbes und der Landwirtschaft am BIP. Diese Sektoren erfordern lange Arbeitszeiten und zeichnen sich durch einen geringeren Automatisierungsgrad und einen geringeren Einsatz moderner Technologien aus“, fügte sie hinzu.
https://tvpworld.com/93683682/poles-among-longest-working-people-in-eu
Von Gamebyter
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Lots of energy goes into determining whose fault it is
Maybe people are just pissed of paying eastern prices but earning western salaries
but i keep getting told the Polish standard of living and gdp is skyrocketing daily… so something doesn’t add up
Productivity depends on the employer not the worker. A worker using an excavator to dig a hole is more productive than a worker digging a hole with his hands. And whose fault is it that the productivity is lower???
Workforce in Poland is very, very, very cheap. As a consequence employer prefers to hire ten workers than buy one excavator. It is just cheaper.
Maybe because reward for doing your work better and faster is receiving more work?
„Hey boss, I just figured out a way to get this hour-long task done in ten minutes!“
„That’s fantastic! Your reward for this innovation is the opportunity to be the sole individual who performs this task for every department from now on. You are still expected to fulfil your regular duties. Your annual raise review is coming up in 10 months, at which time I’ll tell you that the company can only offer the minimum pay increase of 2% due to economic limitations. Your innovation will, however, garner me a hefty bonus due to the reduction in our labour costs, and that is something you can take great pride in. But I can give you this prestigious reward: you get to choose the toppings for this quarter’s pizza party. Great job. Now get back to work.“
poland: do just enough to where the law protects you from getting fired + abuse L4 because who gives a shit, the job sucks and you make nothing anyways so don’t feel the slightest guilt.
Productivity is a bullshit kpi, means exactly nothing.
As always crucial part of information is missing from headline, Poland had one of the lowest shares of part time workers in the EU at just 6.2% – well below the bloc’s average of 17.7%. Obviously in country where 94 people works 40hr/w and 6 people let’s say 20hr/w, people will work more hours per week than in countries where almost three times as many people work part-time.
Local employers give 0 incentive to work faster, working faster gives you 0 benefits and more work done is expected from you. Its only employers fault they expect us to work for free. Places that actually pay for more work (Bridgestone factores are an example) make people go crazy to get that sweet paycheck.
you guys got jobs?
One thing that people miss here is that we’ve still got serious problems with agriculture. There are still many, many inefficient small farms that are artificially kept alive through KRUS, when it would be better to get rid of them and replace them with large, efficient farms that use modern technology. These small farms are incredibly unproductive, and they’re a very bad use of available labour.
The problem is that if we do that, unemployment in the east will skyrocket.
„productivity lags“ what the fuck is this productivity? will German or French worker be more „productive“ in our Biedronkas, Lidl’s or Kaufland’s?
„Productivity“ in economics is a circular concept – it depends on pay. The more you’re paid, the more „productive“ you are. No one asks if the pay represents the actual productivity.
Productivity is defined as GDP / labor hours.
Do not mistake productivity for “hard working.” The economic metric of productivity favors high revenue services over manufacturing.
Ireland has the highest productivity in the world. Mostly because many companies HQ there as a tax dodge, not because they work hard or produce anything (other than Guinness, bit of wool, and some pharmaceuticals)
There’s this famous joke:
Two economists go for a walk. The first economist says to the second, „I’ll pay you $1M to eat that pile of dogshit.“ The second agrees, holds his nose, and eats it.
They walk a bit further and come across *another* pile of dogshit. The second economist says, „I’ll pay you $1M to eat that pile of dogshit.“ The first agrees and eats it.
They walk a bit further in silence until the first economist says, „Wait a minute. I gave you $1M, and you gave me $1M back. We both just ate dogshit for nothing.“
„Not true!“ the second economist replies. „We just increased the GDP by $2M!“
Much of what the top “most productive” economies do is just push paper and money back and forth.
The fate of outsourcing country
Poles hardest workers? Ahahahahahahahahahaha. No. Unless other countries have bigger slacker problems. Because here in Poland everyone hates working so bad, that even at their shift they use Facebook messenger, scroll memes etc. That’s not hard working at all. I had a guy whining that he’s bored when he had 3 more minutes on the break, just standing there, so I told him why not just clock in earlier and he was NO WAY I WON’T. Like he was literally bored to death and yet refused to just take these 3 minutes that would pass in an instant, but he would rather do nothing, bored, than just clock in a little earlier. Nobody expects from people to overwork and do too much, but if people just prefer slacking **when there is work to do**, that’s opposite of hard working.
I’m curious how they measure it. Apparently Germany, Netherlands leads in productivity, but whoever has ever seen them working, know it’s far from truth.
Productivity lags because Poland doesn’t have high-margin products and innovations that could be monetized or exported. We are a manufacturing line overall. We used to be cheap, at least at that, but with the current minimum wage hike and expensive electricity, we have lost this position. No lessons learned, no economic policy.
The „productivity“ here is a measure of how effective we are, not how much we slack at work. Well, it’s also that, but that is a remnant of the communist era.
How “productivity” is measured? Maybe that will solve the mystery. This metrics oftentimes value more an email than actual work.
productivity lags couse lack of investments in new machines and technology
We have great workers but most managers get the job via friends not skill and it REALLY shows
But agriculture needs protecting /s