Noun
The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end. Lewis Mumford
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. Franz Kafka
I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases. Peter Brimelow
This decade holds many changes for the United States, but the greatest needs regarding America's productivity in the 1990s, are better education and employee training. Gregory Balestrero
It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent. Paul A. Baran
The rural and urban populations does not necessarily drift downward in the process of economic growth: indeed, there is some evidence to suggest that it is stable at best, and tends to widen because per capita productivity in urban pursuits increases more rapidly than in agriculture. Simon Kuznets