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If it had grown at the same rate after the financial crisis as it had before, UK workers could now work on average almost 6 fewer hours per week.

The slowdown in productivity growth has had a tangible effect. Our analysis shows that if trend productivity growth had continued at the same rate as in the decade before the financial crisis, UK workers today could work on average six fewer hours per week in order to produce the same output.