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Keyboard Productivity With the COVID pandemic virtually destroying business confidence around the world, there have been many calls for workers to "increase their productivity" to keep profits up and to keep workers employed.  My particular interest lies in work which relies on the use of computer keyboards.  How can productivity be increased here? I learned to type in 1967.  In 1990, after working for several years as a "temp" legal secretary, I trained and was employed as a court reporter in Perth, Western Australia.  This work required me to transcribe audio recordings from various courts and tribunals, interviews, board meetings etc.  In order to achieve this task I had to be able to type at the speed of speech (150-180 wpm) at better than 99.995% accuracy.  In 2022, although I had retired from paid work in this field, I still undertake it on a voluntary basis, transcribing oral history interviews for a large library. How do I define "productivity"?  D