Example: ‘Hiring new staff should boost the company’s productivity’.
The mistake: hiring more staff might lead to an increase in production – though surely only if demand is high enough – but there is no reason why higher output should lead to greater efficiency (productivity). As the UK’s NHS has found, hiring more staff can cut productivity (output per person per time period).
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