diminishing efficiency

基本解释

Diminishing returns may eventually set in as overworked employees lose efficiency or leave for more arable pastures.
逐渐缩小的利润最终开始，当过度工作的员工失去效率或是离开去了更好的地方。
In this context, new collaborative technologies, when not used appropriately, are over-loading us all and diminishing efficiency and innovation at work.
在这里，我认为新兴的社交网络技术，如果没有得到适当的应用，就会增加人们的工作负荷，并且降低工作效率以及创新能力。
Part of what’s going here is that the computer operating system has achieved a level of maturity and efficiency. You could even say that work on the OS has reached a point of diminishing returns.
这里面临的一个问题在于，计算机操作系统已经实现了一定的成熟度和效率，我们甚至可以说，对操作系统的使用已经达到了收益递减点（Point of Diminishing Returns）。

Growth based only on increased inputs of capital rather than on efficiency gains will eventually be subject to diminishing returns, so in developed economies, where the capital stock is already large, technological advances and efficiency gains are the keys.
ECONOMIST: Catch up if you can