Nor is it simply an argument over depressed American wages versus the long-term productivity of American labor.
Overall, the survey shows positive trends for the adoption of technologies that promise to improve long-term productivity in corporate networks.
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It does nothing to increase productivity but, to the extent that it distorts capital flows and investment decisions, it wastes our time and savings and reduces our long-term productivity.
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And you've got this crying need, and as you point out in the report, this is a twofer -- this is one where we can not only get immediate job growth, but it also lays the foundation for long-term productivity and efficiencies that will make a difference for every company represented around this table.
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In any event, the fiscal conservatism implied by National's centre-right ideology means that the new government will seek to present most of its policy measures as having a long-term benefit for productivity and competitiveness.
When I sat face to face with Derek Wanless in 2002, what impressed me was the clarity of thinking about the long-term issues of health service productivity and demand.
Unlike managers invested in historical decisions, and legacy assets, employees understand that without productivity their long-term employment is at risk.
The only way to truly succeed over time is to use your head, think out long-term trends, figure out where productivity exists (and therefore wealth is being created) in the economy, and invest your mind or your money alongside it.
It will also pay long-term dividends in the form of better productivity and lower attrition.
As in Henry Ford's day, it is workers' productivity that drives long-term wage gains, not workers' wages that drive growth.
For the long-term, the only way to increase productivity is through innovation.
While government can invest in industries in ways that are productive, empirical evidence and the preponderance of academic studies suggest that private companies are better at increasing productivity and producing long-term job growth.
For all the familiar signs of British economic frailty that are now making headlines, such as demand driven by consumption rather than investment, the biggest long-term worry is a different one: whether productivity growth, troublingly weak in the past few years, can revive.
Even if productivity growth remains robust, long-term profits growth is likely to be weaker than expected, making shares overvalued.
Over the long term, higher productivity growth and better-functioning labour markets are vital if economies in southern Europe are to regain the competitive ground they lost in the first decade of monetary union, when their unit labour costs soared relative to those in northern countries like Germany.
When it comes to the very long term, health productivity isn't everything - but if the OBR is right, it may be more important than any other single factor in determining our long-term fiscal health.
Also what we're seeing is some long-term trends where companies are becoming so efficient in terms of productivity that they may feel that they can produce the same amount of goods or services without as many employees.
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And of course, in addition to our plans to reduce the long-term demands on the state by fixing our broken society and to improve the productivity of the state by reforming public services we want to save money straight away by cutting out government waste and outdated programmes.
Because the only way we are going to solve our long-term fiscal challenges when it comes to programs like Medicare and Medicaid is to improve productivity, so that we can get more healthcare for every dollar of GDP that we spend on it.
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If structural reforms are not implemented, the latest recession may be mild, but, according to Tetsufumi Yamakawa, an economist at Goldman Sachs, long-term potential growth may decline to only 0.6% a year by 2009, as productivity growth stalls and the labour force shrinks.
In fact, annual productivity growth since 2004 is about 1.5%, below even the long-term average of 2.25%.
But if you're stuck, as we have been, with the slowest economic recovery in modern memory, most people would probably say it was better for the long-term health of the country to have more people working, less productively, than to have rising productivity but also higher unemployment.
In the long run bold productivity-enhancing reforms will do more to boost the rich world's growth prospects than short-term fiscal austerity.
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