Productivity growth Productivity growth is the measure of the amount of goods and services produced within a specific time period. First, a standard is determined. Next, that standard (or benchmark) becomes the measure against which all future productions are to be measured against. In a country, the annual growth rate is being watched. It could entail becoming meticulous. The home should be maintained and properly kept for coziness and productivity. Organization is one thing most people really are not good enough at, but if they only try, they would be surprised at how they could complete necessary tasks. Organizing your home life is something you should do and it should be started not tomorrow or the other day, but today. This means that productivity increases during economic upswings and slows down (or even declines) when the economy is in a downturn. Several causes have been forwarded to sustain this. One declares that labor and capital inputs are worked harder during boom times than in busts. Another observation pronounces that the reallocation of resources to more productive activities is faster when the economy grows rapidly than when it slows down. It seems that periods of high productivity growth are periods of lower inflation. The interpretation by economists on the correlations between productivity and output, real per capita income and inflation are further clouded by other economic factors. Further studies are still to be done. However, one thing is evident. There were two reasons forwarded as to why business productivity may be higher as a consequence of decreased hours in the work place. The first was the employees perception that they have lesser time available to them to complete the same amount of work as they did before. It moved them to put extra efforts to get everything done, and worked harder than they had in the past. The use of qualitative measures makes the manipulation of the data difficult, although it allows the inclusion of previously unmeasured work aspects. It is hoped that the application of fuzzy mathematics to such terms may make them useful someday. Productivity improvement This is the change sought, noted, or measured in productivity.