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 in order 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 more staff 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.
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The article states that reducing the typical work hour would affect positively in terms of economic, social & other sectors and provide three reasons to support. However, the professor explains that it will not affect the way the article suggested and refute each of the author's reasons.
To begin with, the author argues that four-day a week option would benefit the economy as a whole as well as companies. The shortened week would increase the company's profit. As the employees working four work week willing to accept less order to do so. Also, It would give companies an opportunity to hire more staff. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that it would force the companies to spend more money. Whether the employees work four weeks or five-week, the company has to give them equal health benefits. Thus, forcing the company to spend more. Additionally, he says that hiring more employees means making more spaces, buying more computers that would absolutely cut down the company profits.
Secondly, the writer suggests that a shortened workweek policy would reduce the unemployment rate. As it would give employees the independence to hire more employees. Also, the employees would be more rested and alert, as a result, would make fewer costly errors in their work. The lecturer, however, refutes this by mentioning hiring is costly and expectations from an employee would be more. He elaborates on this expectation thing by bringing up the point that it would be unfair to assume that workload tackled by four workweek employees and five workweek employees would be equal.
Finally, the reading claims that employees who could afford a lower salary in exchange for a more free time could improve their quality of life. In contrast, the lecturer position is that it is not correct. He notes that it would hinder employees' job advancement and also would decrease job stability. As in the time of promotion, the company would prefer to choose five workweek employees for supervision purposes.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 211, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'week' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'weeks'.
Suggestion: weeks
...fit. As the employees working four work week willing to accept less order to do so. ...
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Line 9, column 100, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...icy would reduce the unemployment rate. As it would give employees the independenc...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, well, as to, in contrast, as a result, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 5.04856512141 376% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1710.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 332.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15060240964 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57048988114 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536144578313 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 511.2 419.366225166 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.6117406838 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.5 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261024822282 0.272083759551 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0915246082204 0.0996497079465 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107158243486 0.0662205650399 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149792860936 0.162205337803 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0754281169755 0.0443174109184 170% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.29 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.9 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 63.6247240618 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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