BBC Radio 4:
13:24
23 January 2017
Snippet: ...Mention of LSE research on productivity in UK compared to productivity in France and Germany
... that LSE researchers suggest that by Thursday lunchtime the other countries have produced as much as it takes us to produce by Friday afternoon ...
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Professor John Van Reenen, head of the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE, makes the point rather graphically: "By Thursday lunchtime the other countries have produced as much as it takes us to produce by Friday afternoon when we knock off work. "So basically we could take every Friday off if we could be as productive as those other countries and earn the same amount of money."