There were even claims that IT had improved the performance of the service sector significantly, although macroeconomic measures of productivity did not reflect the improvement.

甚至有人声称，它大大改善了服务部门的业绩，尽管生产率的宏观经济措施没有反映出这种改善。

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They also argued that measures of productivity ignore what would have happened without investments in IT—productivity gains might have been even lower.

他们还认为，生产率的衡量忽略了如果没有对 IT 进行投资会发生的情况：生产率的增长可能更低。

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Yet traditional measures of manufacturing productivity have shown significant increases despite the under measurement of quality, whereas service productivity has continued to stagnate.

然而，传统的制造业生产率衡量指标显示，尽管质量衡量不足，但生产率显著提高，而服务业生产率则继续停滞不前。

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It could be revenue neutral or revenue positive in the first few years, as companies have a need for fewer servers and less space, and productivity measures go up, Moerdler noted.

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Total factor productivity, which measures how efficiently labour and capital are combined, is only 42% of the level in America, or 82% that in South Korea.

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These planned reductions are expected to be driven by aligning the company's workforce with its new strategy as well as through a range of productivity and efficiency measures.

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