Business · 24 August 2026

UK productivity growing faster than official figures indicate

A new report suggests the UK economy might finally be recovering from the 2008 financial crisis. The Resolution Foundation thinktank used a more accurate measure of the workforce to find this improvement. They also found the improvement isn't just from job cuts or AI, but from the same workers in the same jobs.

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