I wonder how Chinese compare, I bet they doubled.
Famously, their inspection infrastructure and regulation boils down to "buyer beware" so its going to be an apples to oranges comparison.
The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
131–140 of 426 posts
Re: The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are undocumented workers factored into the number of employees? I would assume the are excluded from the # of workers in the calculation.
There's no reason they would be excluded. They are getting paid so they'd show up on the books.
I mean, if you're illegally hiring someone, you're not gonna pay them on the book.
Re: The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
#133Easy. Have them to daily standups, sprint planning every two weeks and a day of retrospective and soon their producticity will be rockin'.
Make sure to have them point out each task ahead of time and then get upset if they take longer than the allocated points
Re: The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
It cannot be the case that “all expenses” have grown faster than inflation (which is what real wages takes into account).
All expenses have grown faster than wages, or wages have not kept up with inflation Either way its a pay drop.
GGP referred to 'real wages', and implied that they've increased.
Re: The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
#135[deleted]
Re: The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
#136> number of houses or total square footage built per employee Average house size has probably doubled in the last 50 years. Nail guns can't make up for building code and higher finish work demands. It's not uncommon to see 6 or 7 layers in sheathing today.
Homes are architecturally more complicated than the ranches and bungalows of the past as well. This increases the time spent on each job significantly.
Re: The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
#137In this time-period there has been a large-scale introduction of undocumented workers into the construction labor force. They are a quarter of some construction labor categories. Perhaps using undocumented subcontractors may play a role in lower productivity growth (cheap, unstable, and relatively unskilled labor) or maybe just distorting the statistics. https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/...
>undocumented workers [are responsible for the productivity drop]
I am confused by this assertion. If they are undocumented, wouldn't they be excluded in the stats? And if they aren't included in the stats, shouldn't we expect an artificial increase in worker productivity? If there is a 4:1 undocumented to documented ratio, then that 1 documented person will get "credit" for the work of 5 people! Even if 4 of those people are relatively unskilled, that's still a big boost.
My initial thought about this is that productivity declines because workers wait around a lot, and they wait around because of ballooning administrative overhead. This would also be consistent with what we know about state of the medical industry and academia during the same time period.
Re: The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
#138Easy. Have them to daily standups, sprint planning every two weeks and a day of retrospective and soon their producticity will be rockin'.
We also need to break the tasks down to smaller units. *George, instead of just putting up this wall, can you have a ticket and close it for every board you put up?*
Even better, we could base hiring on solving word search puzzles containing workplace words to select the best of the best construction workers, and maybe some trivia tests.
Re: The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
#139The pay and the working conditions are miserable, plus the society doesn't value hard work anymore
Because of the open southern border allowing low cost labor to flood your market.
Re: The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
#140In this time-period there has been a large-scale introduction of undocumented workers into the construction labor force. They are a quarter of some construction labor categories. Perhaps using undocumented subcontractors may play a role in lower productivity growth (cheap, unstable, and relatively unskilled labor) or maybe just distorting the statistics. https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/...
Paying less for labor increases productivity. Anyone in the construction industry will point to the code books for their explanations.