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Productivity can drive inclusive growth

Increased productivity can lead to higher wages and household incomes, stronger
businesses, better public services and a higher standard of living.

The Productivity Primer

How is productivity defined? How is it measured? How can it be best understood for firms and places and how does it contributes to inclusive growth?

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About National Productivity Week

National Productivity Week returns in January 2025 after the success of its inaugural edition in 2023.

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What is productivity?

Take a look at our handy guide to productivity and how it impacts people and the economy.

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Find out about all of the events happening across the UK for National Productivity Week 2025.

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Monday 27 January, 2025

Making the Future Work – the Closing Conference of the Pissarides Review

The Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing – funded by the Nuffield Foundation – will presents major policy findings.

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Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Productivity Pitches: Schools

By highlighting outstanding examples of innovation across public services, Productivity Pitches, hosted by the Institute for Government, aims to share and support ways to improve performance levels in schools.

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Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Unlocking AI: Practical Strategies for Business Productivity

Join the The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum for a hands-on workshop with industry leaders Connect Three exploring how AI can be used to unlock productivity for your business.

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Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Redefining Productivity: Smarter Ways of Working

Join this workshop with The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum to explore how evolving work practices are reshaping our working culture.

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Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Construction Productivity Conference

The Construction Productivity Conference looks to address the UK construction ‘productivity puzzle’ head on. The Productivity Institute’s Graham Winch will be speaking at the event about Modern Methods of Construction.

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Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Skills, people management and productivity in Yorkshire, Humber and North East

This Yorkshire, Humber and North East Productivity Forum event will explore how good people management practices can contribute to improvements in firms’ productivity and employee wellbeing.

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Wednesday 29 January, 2025

Public Sector Productivity Roundtable

The Programme for Government references a 10-year public service reform with some specific suggestions, but what does productivity mean in the public sector? This roundtable with Prosper and The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum brings together key stakeholders to explore the challenges and opportunities in enhancing public sector productivity.

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Wednesday 29 January, 2025

Scaling Up Success: A Hands-On Workshop for Unlocking Business Potential

Join The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum and Connect Three to learn how businesses can identify and unlock their full potential for growth.

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Wednesday 29 January, 2025

Driving Growth in Scotland: Finance, FinTech, and Funding

Join us to unlock Scotland’s potential with investments that deliver financial returns, drive sustainability, and champion inclusivity.

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Thursday 30 January, 2025

Productivity and the Wellbeing of Future Generations in Wales

The Wales Productivity Forum invites you to the launch of its new insights report, Wales’ Productivity Challenge: A Focus on the Future.

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Thursday 30 January, 2025

Productivity Tips for Tech Businesses

Delivered in partnership with the Eagle Labs and The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum, this interactive session targeted at tech founders will bring experts and founders first-hand experience on tasks prioritisation, time management and people best practice.

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Friday 31 January, 2025

London and the South: Becoming Productive Places?

This event will explore how current policies around net zero, place-based funding, and devolution offer both challenges and opportunities for communities in London, the South East, and the South West.

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Friday 31 January, 2025

Northern Ireland Productivity 2040

This event will launch Northern Ireland’s Productivity Forum’s new report, NI Productivity 2040, focusing on how policy can improve NI’s productivity.

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Friday 31 January, 2025

Innovation and Infrastructure in the East

Join us for this event focusing on the role that innovation and infrastructure plays in supporting inclusive growth across East Anglia.

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Friday 31 January, 2025

Boosting Regional Prosperity: Productivity in the Rural Economy

Discover how The Crichton Trust Estate, Dumfries, empowers rural businesses with heritage spaces, green innovation, and NetZero solutions.

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Friday 31 January, 2025

The Power of Purpose in Business

Sheryl Newman, CEO & Founder, Appetite for Business, will speak about the way that purpose shaped her business including leading to the B-Corp certification at this event delivered with Peer Works and The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum.

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Friday 31 January, 2025

Unlocking the UK’s Productivity Potential

This event from The Productivity Institute Midlands Forum seeks to bring together business, policy and academia to explore how we can both better understand the barriers to productivity growth in the region, and ways that we can collaborate to address them.

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Report: Productivity in the UK Evidence Review – Productivity Commission

The cost of UK productivity underperformance is laid bare in first report of Productivity Commission.

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Report: Strategic Productivity for the Leadership Team

Detailing the five drivers of business productivity and how business leaders can work more closely across functions to boost growth.

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Report: Making Public Sector Productivity Practical

Outlining why productivity growth in the public sector is so important and what levers the public sector can use to achieve their goals.

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What is National Productivity Week?

Productivity matters because it’s what drives improvements in living standards over the long term.

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What is productivity?

Productivity is the key to prosperity. Increased productivity can lead to higher wages and household incomes, stronger businesses and better public services.

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What is business productivity?

The most successful and profitable businesses are the most productive.

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