Labor productivity growth is of paramount importance both for overcoming the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and for the recession that began much earlier. As you know, over the past ten years, the rate of return growth rates have shown a steady downward trend. It is the revolutionary ways to accelerate labor productivity, especially based on technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and robotics, that can turn the tide and revive the global economy. Development of practical recommendations for increasing growth rates first requires to theoretically reveal the internal structure of labor productivity as a contradictory unity, the productive force of labor and labor intensity, which will determine the main driving forces and main directions of labor productivity growth.