Question

The Dulac Box plant produces 500 cypress packing boxes in two 10-hour shifts. Due to higher demand, they have decided to operate three 8-hour shifts instead. They are now able to produce 600 boxes per day. What has happened to productivity

Answer 1

Nothing has happened to productivity at the Dulac Box plant because the same number of cypress packing boxes are produced per labor hour.

What is productivity?

Productivity refers to the efficiency, resourcefulness, or creativity achieved in producing more units of goods and services using fewer production resources.

Productivity can be measured as the quantity of output per unit of input.

For example, the labor productivity at the Dulac Box plant was initially 25 boxes per labor hour under the two 10-hour shifts.  When the plant introduced the three 8-hour shifts, total production units increased from 500 to 600 without any increase in productivity.

Data and Calculations:

Old production units = 500 boxes

Labor-hours used = 20 (10 x 2) hours

New productivity per labor hour = 25 boxes per hour (500/20)

New production units = 600 boxes

Labor-hours used = 24 (8 x 3) hours

New productivity per labor hour = 25 boxes per hour (600/24)

Thus, there is no change in productivity with the change in shifts.

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