In the United States, employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day. However, many employees want to work a four-day week and are willing to accept less pay inorder to do so. A mandatory policy requiring companies to offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweek for four-fifths (80 percent)of their normal pay would benefit the economy as a whole as well as the individual companies and the employees who decided to take the option.
The shortened workweek would increase company profits because employees would feel more rested and alert, and as a result, they would make fewer costly errors in their work. Hiring morestaff to ensure that the same amount of work would be accomplished would not result in additional payroll costs because four-day employees would only be paid 80 percent of the normal rate. In the end, companies would have fewer overworked and error-prone employees for the same money, which would increase company profits.
For the country as a whole, one of the primary benefits of offering this option to employees is that it would reduce unemployment rates. If many full-time employees started working fewer hours, some of their workload would have to be shifted to others. Thus, for every four employees who went on an 80 percent week, a new employee could be hired at the 80 percent rate.
Finally, the option of a four-day workweek would be better for individual employees. Employees who could afford a lower salary in exchange for more free time could improve the quality of their lives by spending the extra time with their families, pursuing private interests, or enjoying leisure activities.
In the reading passage, the author suggests that by working four days a week instead of 5 days will have a positive impact on the United States economy. However, the professor refutes this idea.
First of all, the author of the article states that by working less hour per week, the profit of a company would increase. The professor objects the idea. The cost of health insurance, training, and tools such as computers of employees is the same no matter what working hours. Accordingly, the profit of the company would remain the same.
Second, the author proposes that the employment rate would increase if the policy is applied. Nonetheless, the professor refutes this idea by stating that if an employee choose to work less per week, the expectation of productivity would be raised. Besides, others may be requested to take over jobs from those who are not absent. Consequently, rather than hiring new workers, a company would only keep the same number of employee.
Lastly, the author of the article assumes that reducing the working hour would be beneficial to employees. However, the professor opposes the assumption by providing the following theory. Since a manager of company would be expected to have abilities of continuous supervision and productivity, those who work 4 hour per week are unlikely to get promotion. Moreover, they might lose their jobs during the economic depression.
According to the perspective mentioned above, the professor concludes that working four days a week does not increase a company's profit, reduce unemployeement rate, and benefit individual's life quality.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 13, column 313, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'hour' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'hours'.
Suggestion: hours
...sion and productivity, those who work 4 hour per week are unlikely to get promotion....
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, besides, consequently, first, however, if, lastly, may, moreover, nonetheless, second, so, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1364.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 259.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26640926641 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76155990079 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567567567568 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 415.8 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.7700759033 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.9333333333 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2666666667 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.33333333333 7.06452816374 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.261822411714 0.272083759551 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0794592851494 0.0996497079465 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0775446457706 0.0662205650399 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162264099037 0.162205337803 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0588805933937 0.0443174109184 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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