The article states that working four days a week would be beneficial for economy, company and employee and provides three reasons of support. However, the lecturer explains that four-day workweek would harm both company and the employee and refutes each of the author’s reasons.
First, the reading says that company can hire more employee while spending same amount of money. However, the professor states that hiring more employee would increase the overall cost. Since, each new employee must be provided with a room and a computer. Moreover, training and insurance cost of these new employees would be extra burden for the company.
Second, the professor states that shortened workweek does not reduce the unemployment rate. Because, company would try to force their employees to finish their work that takes five days to finish normally, in four days. As a result, company would not hire more employee to finish the same amount of work. This point contradicts with the reading passage.
Third, the article posits that working four days a week would increase employees’ life quality. The professor opposes this point by saying that this would harm individuals’ career advancement. Because, companies would promote five day employees and, in the time of downturn, companies would choose to fire their dour-day employees instead of five days employee. Therefore, employees’ job stability will decrease.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, third, while, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 17.0 30.3222958057 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1215.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 221.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.49773755656 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85565412703 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69765999029 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 118.0 145.348785872 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.533936651584 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 350.1 419.366225166 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.6227665589 49.2860985944 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.7857142857 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7857142857 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.57142857143 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.603706814639 0.272083759551 222% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.226685517529 0.0996497079465 227% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124486810358 0.0662205650399 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.407441380296 0.162205337803 251% => Maybe some contents are duplicated.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0249746310194 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.32 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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