{"id":176569,"date":"2026-01-11T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/nzs-low-productivity-is-often-blamed-on-businesses-staying-small-that-could-be-a-strength-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:15:09","slug":"nzs-low-productivity-is-often-blamed-on-businesses-staying-small-that-could-be-a-strength-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/nzs-low-productivity-is-often-blamed-on-businesses-staying-small-that-could-be-a-strength-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ\u2019s low productivity is often blamed on businesses staying small. That could be a strength in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/nzs-low-productivity-is-often-blamed-on-businesses-staying-small-that-could-be-a-strength-in-2026-271177\">NZ\u2019s low productivity is often blamed on businesses staying small. That could be a strength in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/nzs-low-productivity-is-often-blamed-on-businesses-staying-small-that-could-be-a-strength-in-2026-271177\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/nzs-low-productivity-is-often-blamed-on-businesses-staying-small-that-could-be-a-strength-in-2026-271177<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-11 17:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New Zealand\u2019s firms often choose to stay small due to lifestyle preferences, leading to low national productivity levels.<\/li>\n<li>A global trend towards \u201canti-scale\u201d entrepreneurship shows the viability of small firms with focus on quality, identity, and resilience.<\/li>\n<li>Artificial Intelligence (AI) enables small, specialized firms to achieve outputs previously attributed only to larger organizations.<\/li>\n<li>Smallness, when strategically chosen, can improve productivity, innovation speed, and adaptability in volatile economic conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Successful small economies like Denmark and the Netherlands show that specialization and technological integration are key for global competitiveness.<\/li>\n<li>New Zealand should rethink support mechanisms for small firms to emphasize productivity, expertise, and global reach, rather than size.<\/li>\n<li>The challenge lies not in growing larger, but in growing smarter, focusing on specialized, AI-enhanced firms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NZ\u2019s low productivity is often blamed on businesses staying small. That could be a strength&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/707591\/original\/file-20251210-56-arz2a4.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C1327%2C7952%2C3976&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-176569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176571,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176569\/revisions\/176571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}