Rising productivity

UK productivity figures rose despite the pandemic Official figures show Britain’s productivity improved in the first twelve months of the pandemic as lockdowns forced labour intensive industries to close and higher value jobs shifted online. Output per hour, a key measure of productivity, grew 0.9% in the year to March and is now 0.5% higher than at the end of 2019, the Office for National Statistics said. It was the fastest annual growth in productivity since the second quarter of 2018, excluding one COVID-19 related anomaly.