>Adam wrote- >According to labor statistics, productivity for American workers >continues to climb. I can understand how that is measured for >industries in which there is a measurable *thing* produced, such as >cars or toasters, but how do those statistics get determined for >nontangibles? Let's look at, say, software coders - how can you >measure their productivity? > >Or is this a P2C2E (Process Too Complicated To Explain)?
In the world of medicine we measure clients treated, or units billed (some people have short visits and some have longer visits), compared to man hours (sometimes those are adjusted to some sort or equivalents to reflect salary differences in staff). Kind of an FTE equivalent like teachers in some ways, and yes we keep getting lower pay from insurers (and calls to do more with less like everyone else). Dee _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
