IT and productivity (FYI)

Bill D'Arcy (billd@effect.net.au)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:09:14 +1000

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>From the SMH:

Computers find fruit for thought

By ROBERT MATTHEWS, The Telegraph, London

ECONOMISTS call it the Productivity Paradox: the fact that despite
spending a trillion dollars a year on information technology, productivity
growth in the Western industrial countries has plummeted by two- thirds
since the 1960s - from an annual increase of 4.5 per cent to a piffling 1.5
per cent. What is more, the big users of IT, such as the service industries,
have been suffering worst.
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The rest is at:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9810/12/features/features3.html

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