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Productivity is a totally irrelevant metric. It takes 2 people, 5 years to built a 50 foot sailboat. It takes 10 people, 4 months.

Which is most productive?

That depends on the price and the quality of course.

Never measure for quantity.

Always measure for quality in the environment you are competing in.

And since most professional work is about making money/use value, it would be a could start to measure how much money/use value people are contributing to. If people are not actively contributing to this they are not productive.



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