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U.S. workers have gotten less productive – no one is sure why

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Post by twobitshifter »

badpun wrote: post #296
conductr wrote: post #273

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It's also because it's enterprise software. Which actually isn't software, it's more of a platform. You have to do so much implementation detail that the GUI is just the result of some form-builder type module. Everything I've ever encountered that was enterprise software, felt like it's GUI was not made by humans at all. I don't actually know how they get built but they're almost never optimized for humans or the us…

Nobody wants to pay for better GUIs in enterprise software, so no vendor puts any attention into them. An Enterprise Architect explicitly explained to me (when I was raising a point of choosing a software package that had much better UI) that good UX is a small factor and company (a bank in that case) would rather buy cheaper software and just have its workers suffer more, because it's deemed more cost-effective.

This is true, look at time collection software or just about anything written with SAP.

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Post by dfadsadsf »

warbler73 wrote: post #247
nradov wrote: post #155

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Some healthcare provider organizations now employ medical scribes who follow physicians around and do all their EHR data entry. This is expensive, but can be cost effective because then the physicians have more time to perform billable procedures.

The least capable doctor's time is worth $300/hr. The scribe is paid what, $25/hr? This is so much like hearing of engineers that will not hire a $20/hr maid due to egalitarian reasons so they squat in filth or waste all their free hours cleaning, all while capable and willing cleaners starve. Insane.

You are overestimating how much least capable doctor makes (more like 100-150k) and underestimating how much somebody who can type medical information makes (more like $30-$35).

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theGnuMe wrote: post #394
superkuh wrote: post #77

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"hits of dopamine" is not really how it works. Drugs like methamphetamine or cocaine directly give you "hits" of dopamine. Perceiving a stimuli through your senses does not directly manipulate the dopaminergic neuronal populations. It's just like any other stimuli where, if the stimulus is actually intrinsically rewarding, eventually the dopaminergic populations in your brain begin to associate the stimuli with poten…

Umm, you might want to read up on dopamine and how it works. The Huberman lab podcast has a great episode.

I tend to stick to journal articles. You should checkout the review articles at the Berridge lab, https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/publications/

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Post by cosmiccatnap »

This reminds me of a study where purses would be dropped with People don't work harder because their work is unfulfilling, their pay is underwhelming, and their hours are exhausting. Inflation just went through the roof and half of all price increases in domestic product are directly corperate profits and even the most uneducated among us are aware that every single part of this system is rigged.

and the Washington post claims "no one is sure why" but in reality they mean "nobody in a position of privilege that we would hire or talk to has an excuse that doesn't point out the obvious things we can't say about class struggle and income inequality"

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Post by ummonk »

jjk166 wrote: post #362

US Worker productivity is 0.7 standard deviations below its average over the last 3 years. It is 3.6% below all time high. It is higher now than at any point before July of 2020. YOY Productivity growth has dipped negative and then went back to positive 20 times in the past 22 years. To be concerned about the current level of productivity requires either the attention span or the intelligence of a goldfish. https://t…

Wow. Much needed context.

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Post by scarface74 »

lanstin wrote: post #244
mbesto wrote: post #214

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huh? if the records are "standard, digital and transferrable", it means all of the work associated with those records is sped up. - Need to retrieve past doctor visits about a patient? person at front desk no longer needs to walk to the folder closet, then scan the whole thing to find your name and then read through all of the documents to find the relevant visits. just click a button. - How about getting the prescri…

It is more productive if the person just knows if the procedure is covered because the insurance companies have stable standards and trust the medical providers rather than having it all be JIT decisions based on rules that either constantly shift or are so vague/low trust as to be "you medical person yourself can't decide if this procedure is covered, you have to call us." And back in the paper days, the staff would…

> and trust the medical providers

$68 Billion in medical fraud in the US

> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139931/

Part of the opioid crisis caused by basically bribing doctors

Yes I’m well aware that when drug abuse was happening in the “inner cities” where the government looked the other way because it was more concerned with propping up countries during the Cold War, the same people who want to treat drug addiction like a “disease” when it’s happening in “rural America”, it blamed “single mothers” and “lack of morals”.

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Post by twobitshifter »

dleslie wrote: post #293
Mordisquitos wrote: post #144

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> People in tech keep thinking more tech will solve problems and they keep underestimating the flexibility of the old models. Related to this, but in a completely different context, I have had similar thoughts lately when eating out at restaurants in Spain. It's incredibly frustrating from a customer's point of view when the waiter taking your group's order has to use a newfangled tablet or phone-like device and tap…

Here in BC, Canada, many places don't even provide you a menu. You're expected to scan a QR code on the table, then use the website it leads you to. So the table fumbles around with their phones, using a website that usually has a terrible UX, and then the server arrives and enters your order on their tablet. At least they don't require that we install an App. But I'm sure someone's thinking that would be a good idea…

QR codes mean there are no menus to clean off.
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