Better outcomes for people,
firms and places.
Unlocking the UK’s productivity potential.
Exploring what drives better outcomes
National Productivity Week 2026 will explore how productivity can drive better jobs, stronger businesses, and more prosperous communities across the UK.
Regional Productivity Agenda
A guide to the productivity performance of the English regions and devolved nations, released during National Productivity Week 2025.
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?
Joining Up Pro-Productivity Policies in the UK
Improving the poor UK productivity performance at the aggregate, regional and sectoral levels requires sustained political leadership, significant public and business investment, as well as close policy coordination.
Find out about all of last year’s events across the UK for National Productivity Week 2025. More details on National Productivity Week 2026 will be announced soon.
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 – presented major policy findings.
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.
Unlocking AI: Practical Strategies for Business Productivity
This hands-on workshop with industry leaders Connect Three explored how AI can be used to unlock productivity for your business.
Redefining Productivity: Smarter Ways of Working
This workshop with The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum explored how evolving work practices are reshaping our working culture.
Construction Productivity Conference
The Construction Productivity Conference looked to address the UK construction ‘productivity puzzle’ head on. The Productivity Institute’s Graham Winch spoke at the event about Modern Methods of Construction.
Skills, people management and productivity in Yorkshire, Humber and North East
This Yorkshire, Humber and North East Productivity Forum event explored how good people management practices can contribute to improvements in firms’ productivity and employee wellbeing.
Public Sector Productivity Roundtable
This roundtable with Prosper and The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum brought together key stakeholders to explore the challenges and opportunities in enhancing public sector productivity.
Scaling Up Success: A Hands-On Workshop for Unlocking Business Potential
The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum and Connect Three delivered this workshop to learn how businesses can identify and unlock their full potential for growth.
Driving Growth in Scotland: Finance, FinTech, and Funding
This event focused on unlocking Scotland’s potential with investments that deliver financial returns, drive sustainability, and champion inclusivity.
Productivity and the Wellbeing of Future Generations in Wales
The Wales Productivity Forum launched its new insights report, Wales’ Productivity Challenge: A Focus on the Future, at this event.
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 brought experts and founders first-hand experience on tasks prioritisation, time management and people best practice.
London and the South: Becoming Productive Places?
This event explored 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.
Northern Ireland Productivity 2040
This event launched the Northern Ireland’s Productivity Forum’s report, NI Productivity 2040, focusing on how policy can improve NI’s productivity.
Innovation and Infrastructure in the East
This event focused on the role that innovation and infrastructure plays in supporting inclusive growth across East Anglia.
Boosting Regional Prosperity: Productivity in the Rural Economy
This event looked at how The Crichton Trust Estate, Dumfries, empowers rural businesses with heritage spaces, green innovation, and NetZero solutions.
The Power of Purpose in Business
Sheryl Newman, CEO & Founder, Appetite for Business, spoke 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.
Unlocking the UK’s Productivity Potential
This event from The Productivity Institute Midlands Forum sought 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.
Report: Unlocking Productivity: Collaborative Synergies for Chief Financial Officers
A joint TPI and CIMA report examining the expanded role of the Chief Financial Officer and its importance for productivity.
Report: Navigating the Productivity Paradox: Strategic Insights from Chief Information Officers
The disconnect between rising ICT investments and stagnant productivity gains remains a significant challenge for organisations.
Report: Productivity Through People: New Opportunities for CHROs
A joint TPI and Conference Board report examining six specific people-based levers that Chief Human Resource Officers can use to boost productivity.
Paper: The Productivity Picture: London and the South
The London and South Productivity Forum’s 2025 updated Insights Paper.
Paper: Scotland’s Productivity Challenge: Exploring the issues – 2025
The Scotland Productivity Forum’s 2025 updated Insights Paper.
Paper: North West Productivity and Growth Strategies
The North West Productivity Forum’s 2025 updated Insights Paper.
Paper: Productivity, Training and Skills in Yorkshire, the Humber and the North East
The Yorkshire, Humber and North East Productivity Forum’s 2025 updated Insights Paper.
Paper: NI Productivity 2040: Addressing Northern Ireland’s productivity gap for greater prosperity
The Northern Ireland Productivity Forum’s 2025 updated Insights Paper.
Paper: East Anglia: Exploring Economic Strengths and Addressing Productivity Challenges
The East Anglia Productivity Forum’s 2025 updated Insights Paper.
Paper: Wales’ Productivity Challenge: A Focus on the Future
The Wales Productivity Forum’s 2025 updated Insights Paper.
Paper: Productivity in the Midlands: Trends, Challenges & Solutions
The Midlands Productivity Forum’s 2025 updated Insights Paper.
What is National Productivity Week?
Productivity matters because it’s what drives improvements in living standards over the long term.
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.
What is business productivity?
The most successful and profitable businesses are the most productive.
