Lord Snooty on British workers " need more graft"

Simple solutions are known and well established to increase productivity.

Massive investment in education and ensure the skills learnt match what industry wants

Massive increase in funding for health care, nothing effects productivity like illness.

Invest in industry, that does not mean make the shareholders rich, it means ensure the infrastructure is provided to give our business an advantage.

That over privelidged fûcker won't give a toss about any of those enablers, as none of them make him richer quickly enough.
 
France has between 9 and 25% higher productivity than the UK, difficult to understand how it's measured. France has reduced standard working week than the UK, higher worker protections, stronger unions, more considerations for personal / private life, higher tax rates. So I'd expect Truss Reece mogg et al to be looking to increase union participation, increase tax and worker protections to get to french levels.
 
What a ** joke, he's been gifted privilege all his life. He wouldn't know anything about graft with the exception he expects us plebs to do it, whilst he does nothing of the sort. There'll still be working class people who haven't got a pot to piss in, who think he great because he's a brexiteer.
 
Jacob Rees-Mogg had a father with something about him - even though he was a Tory. The son is a lazy bugger whose droll put downs typify the louche nobodies of his class.
 
Costero Poderoso said:
France has between 9 and 25% higher productivity than the UK, difficult to understand how it's measured. France has reduced standard working week than the UK, higher worker protections, stronger unions, more considerations for personal / private life, higher tax rates. So I'd expect Truss Reece mogg et al to be looking to increase union participation, increase tax and worker protections to get to french levels.
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They won’t do any of that.
 
One of the very few benefits of the current Labour shortage (caused by Brexshit) is that it should lead to higher average productivity. For instance, many farmers are now investing in automated picking robots because they literally cannot get people to pick crops (some of which are rotting in the fields as I type). I would guess that this sort of thing is happening in a few sectors. Productivity has a little to do with laziness, but it's more to do with technology and innovation. If low productivity was solely down to lazy Brits then you would have to conclude that British management practise is also very poor.

All in all it just amounts to more stupid, meaningless rabble rousing from the hard of thinking Conservative Party, trying to distract and deflect from the terrible state of our country that they have presided over. If anything is lazy, it is the tired and insulting tropes increasingly used by the right.
 
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ElBurroSinNombre said:
Productivity has a little to do with laziness, but it's more to do with technology and innovation. If low productivity was solely down to lazy Brits then you would have to conclude that British management practise is also very poor.
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Agree 100% with the first part of that, companies that would rather pass profit to shareholders and the directors than invest in state of the art equipment. Years ago I worked for a food company who spent a lot of time researching the best kit, and even partnering to experiment with new kit ( some of which did not work), and, guess what, compared to the rest of UK and benchmarked against our US and Aussie competitors, we were more efficient.

The latter about management, I have worked with some really poor management teams, particularly where someone in the family of owner has a job, where board level tries a new approach every year, where change management is used to hide old failures, where the management trainee scheme moves everyone very 6 months, meaning they never have the opportunity to learn from their mistakes. Training schemes are more about the training company making money than delivering relevant training, the company I work for now is a case in point. 100% pass rates, missed training sessions cancelled at last minute, genuine not understanding the working environment, facilitators arguing on zoom calls.

Just to clarify, the above great company was run by the owner and his son, it can work.
 
Costero Poderoso said:
France has between 9 and 25% higher productivity than the UK, difficult to understand how it's measured. France has reduced standard working week than the UK, higher worker protections, stronger unions, more considerations for personal / private life, higher tax rates. So I'd expect Truss Reece mogg et al to be looking to increase union participation, increase tax and worker protections to get to french levels.
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The French work statistics count the lunch hour (or two hours) as part of the working day. I kid you not.
So comparing UK data with that from France is like comparing apples with pears.
 
Archibald Knox said:
The French work statistics count the lunch hour (or two hours) as part of the working day. I kid you not.
So comparing UK data with that from France is like comparing apples with pears.
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Not true, standard working week in France is 35 hours and for every six hours worked there has to be a minimum 20 minute UNPAID break.

As in Spain the overall work day in France is often counted as part of welfare and work / life balance statistics, which includes commuting and lunch breaks. In that way you can look at overall productivity from a complete work day, but you could do the exact same thing in the UK. You can then compare apples with apples and pears with pears.

Where the problem exists is in the practice of who counts their hours and who doesn't. Very few professionals clock on, but many unskilled and semi skilled and many government workers do have to clock on and off. Typically many professional workers have to log their hours worked in order to be billable. But even if lets say a lawyer or a consultant was clocking 50 or 60 billable hours in a week, on typical productivity stats it would only show a salaried member of staff on a full time 35 hour per week contract. Internal productivity would look completely different.

Spain recently introduced legislation where all employees have to clock in and out, in order to combat over working (for free) what this has done though is encouraged large companies to have their staff work at home where due to a privacy loophole in the law they don't have to record those hours.

The point I'm making goes to the issue that productivity stats are completely pointless when you get to professional / service orientated work, and impossible to calculate when you look at the majority of service work now not even having a productive output, the UK is now a majority Rentier economy (according to Paul Krugman and others), and productivity in that instance can only be measured in asset value increase and yields, and asset values generally are not even included as a calculated item on GDP, which GDP per capita, the base measure of productivity can not make any sense.

edit: just to add if the lunch breaks were included as you say it would make the french productivity look even better. so on top of the tax increases, worker protections et al that Truss(ed up in daft ideas) wants to eradicate there's a decent case for paid 2 hour lunch breaks
 
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Most people I know who went to University did summer jobs as the lowest of the low. My step-son's generation did the same whilst studying. They teach respect for people in different circumstances. I don't think ** Rees-Mogg did that sort of thing.
 
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