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For two centuries, productivity growth has been the engine of rising living standards, yet the past decade has seen a perplexing slowdown. In this show, Lucas and Luna examine the forces that drive — and inhibit — long-term economic output. Each episode focuses on a specific lever: from R&D investment and education reform to infrastructure spending and the diffusion of digital technologies. They avoid political rhetoric, instead grounding every discussion in historical data and named case studies — Japan's lost decade, Germany's Mittelstand, the post-2000 US productivity boom. Lucas, with his journalist's eye, lays out the evidence; Luna, the engaged interlocutor, presses on the policy trade-offs and real-world frictions that academic models often ignore. The listener is someone who wants to understand not just why productivity matters, but what actually works — and what doesn't — when it comes to making an economy more efficient over the long haul. By the end of a typical conversation, you'll have a clear, number-backed argument about one driver of growth, and a sharper sense of the choices societies face.
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Episode 32 digs into the link between workplace design and national productivity. Lucas opens with a 2019 study from MIT and Harvard finding that open-plan offices reduced face-to-face interaction by 70% while increasing
Episode 31 of The Productivity Podcast digs into the 1970s productivity paradox—a period when US productivity growth collapsed from 3 percent to just 1.5 percent annually despite massive R&D spending, rising education le
Episode 30 of The Productivity Podcast explores a counterintuitive economic pattern: the productivity-enhancing effect of recessions. Lucas and Luna examine the 2008 financial crisis as a case study, where aggregate labo
Lucas and Luna examine the hidden productivity penalty of workplace surveillance software. Drawing on a 2025 study from the University of Oxford's Internet Institute, they break down the specific numbers: monitored worke
Lucas and Luna explore how organizational silos silently kill productivity. Lucas cites a McKinsey study showing that knowledge workers spend nearly 20% of their time searching for internal information or tracking down c
For decades, Japan was the cautionary tale of productivity stagnation — flat output per worker from 1991 through 2012 while the rest of the developed world grew. But starting around 2013, Japanese productivity quietly be
Lucas and Luna explore how demographic trends—aging populations, shrinking workforces, and shifting dependency ratios—are the hidden driver behind long-term productivity growth, not the tech or management hacks we obsess
Lucas and Luna explore a specific, under-discussed driver of productivity growth: the surprisingly long tail of returns from capital investment in physical assets. They examine a 2025 study by economists at the Federal R
Episode 24 of The Productivity Podcast digs into a surprising but rigorously studied productivity lever: the lunch break. Lucas and Luna explore a 2023 study from the University of Illinois that found knowledge workers w
This episode examines how physical health directly shapes economic productivity at the individual and national level. Lucas and Luna dig into a 2023 Rand Corporation study that quantified the productivity loss from chron
Lucas and Luna dig into a 2025 McKinsey study that found miscommunication costs large organizations $62.4 million per year in lost productivity. They explore why 'clarity debt' builds up in fast-growing companies, how on
In this episode of The Productivity Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore why automating routine tasks can sometimes backfire. They examine a 2024 MIT study on data-entry workers at a mid-sized insurance firm, whe
Episode 20 of The Productivity Podcast explores how the economy's long-term potential growth rate—often called r-star or the natural rate—has quietly fallen, and what that means for business investment and worker product
Lucas and Luna explore how decision fatigue quietly drains productivity across organizations, using a study from a major hospital system that found prescription errors rose 28% after four hours of continuous decision-mak
Episode 18 unpacks the measurable productivity cost of corporate jargon. Lucas and Luna explore a 2025 study from the University of Chicago estimating that vague language in internal communications costs large firms up t
Episode 17 of The Productivity Podcast examines why corporate training so often fails to boost productivity. Lucas walks through the research on training transfer — the gap between what employees learn in a workshop and
Episode 16 of The Productivity Podcast digs into a hidden drag on remote and hybrid work: the false efficiency of asynchronous communication. Lucas and Luna examine a 2025 Microsoft study of 60,000 employees showing that
Episode 15 of The Productivity Podcast digs into a surprising drag on American output: the ballooning ratio of managers to individual contributors. Since 1983, the number of managers per worker has grown by over 80 perce
Lucas and Luna examine the puzzle of slowing productivity growth in developed economies since 2005, despite rapid technological change. They focus on the 'measurable vs. unmeasurable' problem highlighted by economist Cha
Lucas and Luna explore the 'switching cost' of workplace interruptions, drawing on a 2023 University of California Irvine study that found it takes an average of 23 minutes to fully refocus after a distraction. They disc
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