It can often feel like we are obsessed with productivity. Whether we’re discussing the economy and organisational culture in the workplace or at home, productivity is often hailed as the ultimate goal. Yet all this talk of productivity is not necessarily making us more productive. The UK’s productivity puzzle is a case in point, with the Financial Times (FT) pointing out that in the last decade British productivity has hardly grown at all and remains “miserably unproductive” compared to other countries.