At its recent user conference, the always thought-ful management of Emerson Automation Solutions . discussed work's changing nature. The U.S. manufacturing sector experienced 4.0% productivity growth from 1990 to 2000, and 4.7% from 2000 to 2007. Analyses of productivity growth statistics can be highly speculative. At the time, however, experts and media credited computerization for these productivity gains.
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