Medtechs that book the most sales per employee face the greatest losses

The medtechs that enjoy the highest sales for their headcount tend to be those making large, expensive machines or largely genericised orthopaedic implants – the types of product that tend to require relatively little in the way of R&D expenditure. But these devices are heavily used in elective procedures, and this is exactly where demand has cratered so far this year thanks to the pandemic.