wow, I beat Hobo to the post
link
I believe
Restaurants (service and hospitality) are facing the largest wage increases and productivity hasn't increased. Your waiter/waitress is slower and highly unmotivated. (at least on my side of town
)
"The productivity of the business sector fell 2.5 percent compared with a year ago,
the largest decline ever recorded in data going back to the first quarter of
1948, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
said Tuesday. The decline comes from a
1.5 increase in economic output and a 4.1 percent increase in total hours worked."
Unit labor costs jumped 10.8 percent in the second quarter of 2022, reflecting a 5.7-percent increase in hourly compensation and a 4.6-percent decrease in productivity. Economists had forecast labor costs to be up by 9.3 percent. In the first quarter, unit labor costs were up 12.6 percent.
The decline in productivity came from the services sector, which is still rebounding from the pandemic