Increased capital spending would also help not just spending more on day to day / staff so you don’t need agency staff at higher rates but again that costs money. Thats in the NHS alone.
Cheap labour abroad doesn’t affect UK productivity they are abroad if you mean people from aboard working for low wages in the UK there is minimum wages and they are being replaced by machines anyway as show in the earlier comments with the ordering machines
What of all the teachers doctors etc doing unpaid overtime ? What about the private contractors working in the public sector are they also lazy ? Or just useless ? In which case how would they do a better job running things. Have you never worked in a lazy or in efficient private company Iv worked places where it depends on management being about to keep an eye on people especially younger staff to keep them working. People always discuss in efficient or terrible workplaces in the private sector when discussing things like the economy or mental health etc
The difference is any business owner in the private sector who has a highly inefficient and wasteful operation with a lazy, intransigent and entitled workforce providing an abysmal level of service for thier paying customers is only wasting their own money... money which I suspect will soon run out.
Well a huge proportion of immigrants in the UK aren't even receiving minimum wage, working in the grey/gig economy they'll be getting well below minimum wage in reality.
And you have?
Well they've certainly done nothing at all so far to demonstrate to me that they're going to tackle the rampant corporatism that's the root cause of every social, economic and environmental issue this country suffers from.
Thank you for one example. I'm not really sure if this is as efficient as you suggest however. The last time I was in a McD, I had to queue to use the machine rather than order at the counter. Not being a regular, I then spent 2-3 minutes navigating the menu for something that would have taken me 10 seconds to order and pay for with a human. My experience in McD was that it was not predominantly staffed by immigrants, it was about 50-50 in terms of visual ethnicity.
If you’re going to post inane stuff like this, you might want to make sure that the first one in the list isn’t false.
Well I'm seeing two positives from that list, all the rest are not good at all, more of the same, or completely unproven in terms of how successful they could be.
But are we now doing this? There is no doubt the ones here may be in that category to an extent but the laws regarding salaries for visas are driving the unskilled category down. But if we don't want low skilled immigration ( many of whom are already here), you'd better remind the locals that those jobs are just waiting for them to do. Maybe that why there are so many 18-24 year olds not bothering to go out to work.
F*ck me. Feckless Breeders- the new phrase for less wealthy parents!! Courtesy of I'mAll RightJacko74.
Not new at all.
The whole point of this particular discussion is that low productivity is intrinsically linked to the use of cheap imported labour, I'm not "guiding it on to immigration at all"
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But you are tarring all with the same brush-very much like the immigration and violence debate. In both cases there will be a small percentage for which your presumption is true, but that is all it is, a small %.
So remind me how many cheap imported labour are actually working in the public sector, whose roles can be made more efficient.