My theory is that many big employers have structured to carry more part time employees over fewer full time. Worse, many part time employees are working two or three jobs to stitch together enough wage to live. Both part time work and multiple disjoint work contexts reduces efficiency.<p>Also, there are fewer and fewer small to midsize businesses and too many huge businesses. Somewhere between, the ideal scaled company actually has the highest productivity, but we&#x27;ve been skewing larger and larger which is also a drag on productivity.