Why Most Companies Waste Their Employee Training Budget

The Productivity Podcast with Fexingo: Output, Efficiency, and Long-Term Economic Growth · May 28, 2026 · 5m · transcript

Episode 17 of The Productivity Podcast examines why corporate training so often fails to boost productivity. Lucas walks through the research on training transfer — the gap between what employees learn in a workshop and what they actually apply on the job. He cites the 90-10-10 rule: 90 percent of training budgets go to the event itself, 10 percent to preparation, and only 10 percent to follow-up. Luna pushes back on the idea that more training is always better, and they discuss how companies like Google and Pixar structure learning to stick. The episode closes with a practical question for…