17/12/2025
New Zealand is a nation of small businesses, but our SME-heavy structure has not delivered top-tier productivity or wages.
This video explains how NZ compares internationally on output per hour, pay, worker rights, job security and training. We look at the structural drivers, including low capital intensity, thin innovation diffusion, and investment skewed toward housing.
Then we outline practical innovations that can shift the dial for SMEs: sector training compacts, management capability programmes, regional productivity extension services, smarter incentives for productive investment, and a labour market bargain that stays flexible without being disposable.
It’s an agenda that businesses can use.
Read the extended article 👉 https://www.regenerationhq.co.nz/nz-business-news/new-zealand-smes-in-a-global-context-productivity-pay-job-security-and-what-could-lift-performance
Watch the extended video 👉 https://youtu.be/GJrSXsZIsvU
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