Tending to hinder, prevent, or work against productivity or efficient output; counterproductive.
From anti- (against) + productive (capable of producing results). Developed as a critical term in 20th-century labor and organizational studies to describe practices that seem to reduce rather than enhance output.
Managers might say that constant meetings without decisions are 'antiproductive,' but the word gained deeper meaning in critical theory to describe how systems supposedly designed for efficiency sometimes create the opposite effect.
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