The Labor Department reported Thursday that productivity - the amount an employee produces for every hour on the job - rose at a 3.5 percent annual rate in the January-to-March quarter, up from a 2.5 percent pace registered in the previous quarter.
That's not sustainable in the long run. Whilt it was in the 90's that was because of massive leaps in technology infrastructure. That type of macro-level change isn't present now.
Work people that hard for too long, and they start dying on ya.
