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Why 70% of Productivity Measurement is Dead Wrong with Dr. Craig Knight

22 September 2025

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Jane Young Host

Dr. Craig Knight Guest

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Leaders who want a better way to measure productivity

HR & People teams improving wellbeing, engagement, and retention

Workplace strategy & office design decision-makers

"Productivity is very difficult to quantify, let alone measure. This is why I think a lot of organizational leaders are reaching for mandates and counting hours and days in the office."

Dr. Craig Knight

Organizational Psychologist

Dr. Craig Knight reveals the shocking truth about productivity measurement – and why most companies are doing it completely wrong.

In this eye-opening conversation, the organizational psychology expert shares how he’s achieved 50% wellbeing improvements, 32% productivity gains, and up to 19% intelligence increases by challenging everything we think we know about workplace performance.

Dr. Craig Knight is an organizational psychologist, founder of Identity Realization, and “wizard of superb workplaces” who’s cracked the code on objective productivity measurement.

Key Topics:

Why subjective productivity measurement is “utterly pointless”
The prison surveillance concept behind open plan offices
How one floor improvement generated £1.5M in additional income
Why 70% of people quit because of management – not the job

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Jane Young

Jane Young is the host of the Workplace Innovators podcast and Future of Work Lead at HubStar. She writes and speaks about the future of work and workplace technology, exploring what helps hybrid and distributed teams thrive, from culture and collaboration to leadership and the employee experience. She’s particularly interested in how technology is reshaping the way we work and lead.

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Why 70% of Productivity Measurement is Dead Wrong with Dr. Craig Knight

"Productivity is very difficult to quantify, let alone measure. This is why I think a lot of organizational leaders are reaching for mandates and counting hours and days in the office."

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