Game of the Week: Dungeons of Hinterberg, productivity, and the quest to escape engagement

Is productivity secretly the great issue of our times? That feels quite hard to argue at the moment, what with everything else, and yet it does keep coming up. The UK in particular seems to be struggling. "Britain’s productivity problem is long-standing and getting worse", worried The Economist, in 2022. In 2023, The Financial Times went in search of answers, claiming productivity was "so weak at UK companies" because of "longstanding problems of low investment and skills gaps exacerbated by overconfidence and lack of management time." The New Statesman meanwhile turned in desperation to the general public, opening a competition at the start of the year with a £5,000 prize for the best answers to the question: "Britain is stuck. How can we get the country moving again?"