How to Use productivity in a Sentence

productivity

noun
  • There has been an increase in productivity.
  • The company is looking for ways to improve worker productivity.
  • The country has low agricultural productivity.
  • But don’t be too quick to proclaim that a new era of productivity has emerged.
    Justin Lahart, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2023
  • And fresh data this week shows that productivity is growing by the fastest pace in three years.
    Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • To amp up your productivity, add the Magic Keyboard to your cart.
    Brittany Vanderbill, Peoplemag, 27 Nov. 2023
  • There were flashes of offensive productivity, and the Aztecs had leads in all three … and were inevitably doomed by a long drought.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Lock away your phone for 1 minute to 10 days, forcing a tech break and boosting productivity.
    Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2023
  • When the snow began to melt, his productivity levels rose once again.
    WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • But at a time when efficiency and productivity seem to be at the center of our lives, why do so many of us feel behind and not enough?
    TIME, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Learn how to improve the health and productivity of backyard citrus trees.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • But what does the science say about clutter and productivity?
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Studies of productivity in work-from-home arrangements are all over the map.
    Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Almonte had shown flashes of productivity in the bullpen the last two seasons, though the 29-year-old had battled injuries and was out of minor league options.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But the influx of new technologies designed to improve productivity is on the rise.
    Addie Swartz, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The choice is especially acute for those who work outdoors and are paid on an hourly or productivity basis.
    Julia Malleck, Quartz, 13 July 2023
  • Sometimes coming up with a prompt for AI is a task within itself, which kind of defeats the purpose of using it for productivity.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The more relevant input to growth and price control is productivity increase, which is hard to measure and can get lost in the noise of GDP and currency value.
    Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The 3:2 aspect ratio means the screen is square, which makes the laptop especially great for productivity.
    Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
  • That is not a devastating loss in productivity, but a difference all the same.
    PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Some of those gains spill over into the low-income world, but often with productivity losses due to differences in soils, pests, and climate.
    Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Pittman said any changes would be made to help players communicate better and lead to more productivity.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Economists note that all these pressures will combine in the medium term to a decline in labor productivity.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The process-centric philosophy of productivity had been largely missing from the world of office work.
    Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Legislative leaders said that the bickering over rules has not slowed them and noted that the number of laws alone isn’t a complete barometer of their productivity.
    Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
  • However, the addition of Moore could be the key to pushing Herbert’s productivity to a higher level.
    oregonlive, 31 May 2023
  • Lascelles spoke for a few minutes, touching on the transition to green energy, the demand for more computer chips and trends in productivity.
    Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2023
  • In recent history, the give-and-take between gains in productivity and increases in worker pay has been uneven.
    Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Experts debate whether the rise of remote work has lowered productivity.
    Tim Henderson, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
  • What paid for that run-up in executive pay was a massive increase in U.S. worker productivity.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024

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