The Federal Diary: Productivity Record Of Federal Employes Declines in 3 Years
Federal employment increased faster than employe productivity in the three-year period that ended last June 30 according io a study by Henry D. Lytton, an analyst here.</br></br>Lytton, whose study covered a spot check of six agencies, r e v e a 1 e d his findings in the May issue of Kluttz	Review	of</br></br>Economics & Statistics, edited by Prof. Seymour E. Harris of Harvard University. He described the productivity record as ÛÏthe most unfavorable performance of the entire postwar period.Û</br></br>The management consultant said productivity declined IV2 per -cent in ÛÏtypical general-Government activitiesÛ in the Ûª58 fiscal year. This was followed by a mere % of 1 per cent increase in the Ûª59 fiscal year, he added. Post Office productivity fell another Vz of 1 per cent in Ûª60 said Lytton.</br></br>ÛÏPostal operations,Û Lytton wrote, ÛÏstill appear affected by the 'growing pains of the oncoming automation of in-the-offices work.Û The average productivity gain over the past 64 years, he' said, was 1% 1 per cent.	j