Rethinking the way we think of work: Productivity versus value creation

With many leaders asking questions on how they are to ensure the productivity of a fully or partially distributed workforce, EY’s Stephen Koss, says this is the wrong question to ask.

Sydney-based Koss, who is EY’s People Advisory Services workforce advisory leader for APAC, says that the Covid-19 pandemic has shown organisations that human productivity, which he defines as industrial age thinking, is an outdated concept and that there is no better time to move away from this thinking.

“Covid has noting that organisations were heading in this direction but it’s the pandemic that has fast-forwarded the discussion.