Government senator Abka Fitz-Henley is challenging senior members of the public and private sector to devise strategies which may create an environment where employees are incentivised and motivated to be more productive in 2024.

The senator, while closing the State of the Nation Debate in the Senate on Friday (February 2), noted that while he calls for personal accountability in assessing productivity levels, he also “applies this call to middle and senior managers across the public and private sectors”.

“I urge them to put in place measures to incentivise and motivate workers to be more efficient in their use of time and to increase their output. I genuinely believe that if key sectors led by the captains of industry across society took on this challenge, Jamaica will be a better place in 2024,” Senator Fitz-Henley said.

Since the year 2000, Jamaica’s labour productivity rate has decreased, on average, by 0.6 per cent annually.

The senator noted that the Government is also playing its part in the productivity push via reformation of the public sector, including digitisation of services, and the move to make available more buses in order to reduce the amount of time spent in 

Fitz-Henley also extended the productivity challenge to every worker across both the public and private sectors.

“The challenge is to ask yourself, what can I do to be more productive this year and onwards, to turn out better outcomes in a shorter space of time. I call for the creation of plans and strategies towards achieving this and acting on it. Ask yourself, how can my rate of output be increased and maximised and how can I be more efficient,” Fitz-Henley said.

The senator noted that the Government is also playing its part in the productivity push via reformation of the public sector, including digitisation of services, and the move to make available more buses in order to reduce the amount of time spent in commute.