Now costs are rising but productivity is growing painfully slowly, from a low base.
现在，劳动力的价格在不断上涨，而生产效率起点虽低，却一直增长缓慢，这着实让人苦恼。
Microsoft's own Office dominates the market for "productivity" software, but the start-ups represented a new wave of technology designed from the ground up for the smartphone world.
微软自己的Office软件在“生产力”软件市场上占据主导地位，但这些初创公司代表了为智能手机世界从头开始设计的一波新技术浪潮。
Take all of your paid time off, which not only gives you recovery periods, but raises your productivity and likelihood of promotion.
把所有带薪假期都用来休息，这不仅能给你时间来恢复元气，还能提高你的工作效率，使你更有可能升职。
In America, the period of huge productivity gains in transportation may be almost over, but in most countries the process still has far to go.
在美国，交通运输业生产率大幅提高的时期可能即将结束，但在大多数国家，这一阶段仍有很长的路要走。
Nonland wealth was also associated with more adoption of both technologies, but the availability of uncultivated land reduced the incentive to employ the productivity-enhancing technologies.
非土地财富也与两种技术的更多采用有关，但是未耕地的可用性降低了采用提高生产率的技术的动力。
You may not want to go to a concert of classical music, but the sounds of the classical music seem to increase mood and productivity.
你可能不想去听古典音乐会，但古典音乐的声音似乎能提高情绪和工作效率。
But we do know about productivity.
但是我们对生产力却很了解。
But the bottlenecks in work productivity are often not obvious.
但是工作效率中的瓶颈常是不明显的。
The second danger also works through productivity, but arises from the role played by debt in this cycle.
第二个危险也是通过生产率发挥作用，但它源自于债务在这一周期中所发挥的作用。
But this productivity metric was a spectacular disappointment in practice, mostly because it was easily abused.
但是这种生产率度量在实践中是非常令人失望的，主要是因为它容易被滥用。
The big problem for agriculture is not the number of people, but signs that farm productivity may be levelling out.
农业面对的大问题不是人口数，而是有迹象表示农业生产力已经开始持平。
But whether productivity or unexpectedly weak growth is to blame for high unemployment, there is a danger that policymakers have failed to recognise the full extent of the slack in the economy.
但是无论是生产率还是出人意料的微弱增长为高失业率负责，决策者没能认识到经济衰退的整体情况都很危险。
Depression and burnout can look the same - exhaustion, loss of interest and lowered productivity - but they're not the same.
沮丧和筋疲力尽可以看做一样——疲惫，失去兴趣和降低效率——但是它们是不同的。
More education may mean higher future productivity, but in the medium term it cuts the number of available workers.
更多的教育可能意味着更高的未来生产率，但在中期它也大大减少了可用的劳动力。
Correct assembly of composite application can increase productivity, but the inverse is also true.
正确组装复合应用程序能够提高生产力，但反过来也是成立的。
Not only is your productivity affected, but you can also make catastrophic mistakes.
不仅仅是你的生产力收到影响，而且你会招致灾难性的错误。
But it does affect overall productivity.
但是，这的确影响了整体生产率。
Over the past 20 years, they have accounted for 41 percent of all gains in U.S. labor productivity-but just 11 percent of private-sector job gains.
在过去的20年里，它们在美国的劳动生产率中占据了41%的份额，但是在所有私营领域的工作岗位上却只占到了11%。
Wages should ideally be tied to productivity, but workers are usually reluctant to suffer the pay cuts that are sometimes required to maintain that link.
工资就理所当然的与生产率相联系起来了，但是工人们却不愿意接受因维持这种联系而引起的工资的削减。
This is one area where not only will you increase productivity, but you will also likely save some CPU cycles.
这是一个您不但可以提高工作效率，而且还有可能节省一些CPU周期的领域。
Such frameworks can give you a short productivity boost, but they can't maintain improvements over time.
这类框架可以提供短期的生产力提升，但是不能在长时间内持续改进。
For example higher fertiliser use raises water productivity but adds pollution to the environment.
例如，增加化肥使用量会提高水分生产力，但会对环境造成污染。
But “productivity” is a false-comfort.
但“生产力”是一个虚假的满足感。
Information technology has already had a huge effect on the productivity of large businesses, but the benefits from "trickle down productivity" may be even more significant.
信息科技已经对大型企业的生产力产生了重大的影响但是从“水滴石漏型生产力”中产生的效益或许才更显著。
Herbal supplements can be a great way to increase your productivity, but only if you can handle the side effects.
药草补充剂会很好的增加你的生活效率，但这是在你对其副作用充分了解的情况下。
But the best productivity systems use both approaches, with the strategy providing a framework for action and the tactics defining those actions.
但是最佳的工作效率管理方法通常同时使用两种方法：战略用来架构行动的纲领，而战术用来指导如何行动。
But they also want it to encourage productivity.
但是，他们同样希望其能提高生产率。
But they also want it to encourage productivity.
但是，他们同样希望其能提高生产率。
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