By end of the 1980s, the company was manufacturing residential, commercial and industrial generators, and in 1989, Generac introduced the first gaseous-fueled automatic home standby system. In 1992, Generac began private labeling generator sets for Caterpillar, Inc.
Elements of the Productivity Ratio. The labor productivity ratio, in its simplest form, looks like this: output/input. Simply divide the amount of output you're getting by the amount of work you're putting into it. This requires you to assign numbers to both input and output so that you get a meaningful figure.
Measuring Productivity Using Total Sales. Another common way to measure a company's labor productivity level is to divide the total sales by the total amount of hours worked. For example, company ABC had net sales of $15 million and its employees worked a total of 20,000 hours over the last fiscal year.