Cyber-slackers doom UK economy

FULL STORY by Tommy Stubbington: The TIMES.....

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Writing on an in-house blog for Bank of England staff, Nixon tracked the shrinking of recent western productivity growth against the tenfold increase in smartphone shipments in the past 10 years. He pointed to evidence of widespread “cyber-slacking”, with office workers routinely sneaking lengthy peeks at their social media accounts.

Hourly worker productivity has flatlined since the 2008 financial crisis, and the UK has begun to lag far behind rival economic powerhouses such as the US and Germany. Over the same period, smartphone production has soared.