Incidentally, for those who are into this sort of thing, another solid quarter for productivity growth: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm

The period since 2019 or so is starting to look like a productivity uptick, though I don't know that their is a good theory about why?

First Quarter 2025, Revised - 2025 Q01 Results

Bureau of Labor Statistics
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I almost wonder if it's because it captures a period of time when remote work suddenly became pushed in a lot of areas of labor...
@ZachWeinersmith What's throwing me off is that each bar represents a different length in time. 26 years, 6 years, 10 years... Do each of them have something in common that I'm missing? Like, why did they choose to present the data in seemingly random intervals rather than intervals of 5 years, for example?

@acrousey @ZachWeinersmith the recent boundaries are recessions, so the bars represent "business cycles" (hence why the current one is labeled "current cycle"). It looks like they lumped all the pre-1970s cycles together in the left bar, which is a bit weird.

Definitely could be labeled more clearly.