Mary McNamara: Worker productivity has fallen, and experts are puzzled. I'm not. We're all just tired

"U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is sure why."

This recent headline from the Washington Post made me laugh until I cried. Then I put my face in my hands and screamed a little bit.

Just a little bit. Because after almost three years of pandemic in a country with threadbare worker support and political divisions so deep that we cannot agree that trying to hang the vice president is a bad thing, I am very, very tired of screaming.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, productivity took a nosedive in the first half of 2022 and that has, apparently, left experts perplexed. Especially in light of how, according