Company X has just switched to a 4-day workweek, mandating that employees work 10 hours
per day from Monday to Thursday instead of 8 hours per day from Monday to Friday. Although
the policy is new, Company X claims that the policy will help to increase profits by shutting
down offices on Fridays and to boost employee morale by reducing commuting time to and from
work each week.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument.
Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are
for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted
The above arugment states that a company X has changed it's working schedule from a 5 day routinue to 4 days,that is form Monday to Thursday and leaving Friday as a holiday.
The working hours,which were generally 8 hours a day are increased by 2 hours,inorder to compensate Friday.The company claims that this would enhance it's profit and even encourage
their employees to work more entusiastically.It beleives that this new policy would help the empolyees by reducing the time to travel for the office.
The Company claims that working 4 days a week for 10 hours a day is more profitable than working 5 days a week for 10 hours a day.But there is no solid evidence that it is that profitable.
Working contiuously 8 hours a day is already stressful for the employees and now the extra two hours will have added pressure on them.The argument doesn't mention the opinion of their employees
,if they are willing to work for 10 hours a day.End of the say it is the employees who bring profit to the company.This new schedule may become more stressful for the employees.
Moreover,Company X claims that this policy will help them to increase the profits by shutting down the offices on Friday.This scentence doesn't make any sense,How can a company make profits
if it's prduction or services stop working? A company will make profits only when their services run properly.There is no evidence to prove that shutting of offices would bring profits.
This claim made by the company X is completely illogical.
The primary and most important thing for the company to run are healthy employees.If the employees are well and fit ,then the employee can work up to his full potential which would lead to
profits.As we know already many employees are facing many health issues due to the stress.Does increasing workhours and giving an extra day off would help the health and mental condition of
the employee? Does this increase or decrease stress and pressure on the employee?
The bottom line is that, it is notsure weather the above change would bring any profits to the company.But the above argument have some serious flaws which are to be addressed.There are no
perfect evidances to prove the claims made by the commpany above.Therefore the arugument is not strogn enough to prove that this change would increase the profits of the company.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 17 2
No. of Sentences: 10 15
No. of Words: 418 350
No. of Characters: 1898 1500
No. of Different Words: 182 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.522 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.541 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.383 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 130 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 59 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 41.8 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 21.535 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.412 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.729 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.162 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 108, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , that
...schedule from a 5 day routinue to 4 days,that is form Monday to Thursday and leaving ...
^^^^^
Line 2, column 18, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , which
... Friday as a holiday. The working hours,which were generally 8 hours a day are increa...
^^^^^^
Line 2, column 78, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , inorder
...y 8 hours a day are increased by 2 hours,inorder to compensate Friday.The company claims...
^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 107, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...by 2 hours,inorder to compensate Friday.The company claims that this would enhance ...
^^^
Line 2, column 107, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...by 2 hours,inorder to compensate Friday.The company claims that this would enhance ...
^^^
Line 3, column 46, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: It
... employees to work more entusiastically.It beleives that this new policy would hel...
^^
Line 5, column 131, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: But
...orking 5 days a week for 10 hours a day.But there is no solid evidence that it is t...
^^^
Line 6, column 134, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
... hours will have added pressure on them.The argument doesnt mention the opinion of ...
^^^
Line 6, column 147, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ave added pressure on them.The argument doesnt mention the opinion of their employees ...
^^^^^^
Line 6, column 193, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... mention the opinion of their employees ,if they are willing to work for 10 hours...
^^
Line 7, column 49, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: End
... are willing to work for 10 hours a day.End of the say it is the employees who brin...
^^^
Line 7, column 116, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: This
...ployees who bring profit to the company.This new schedule may become more stressful ...
^^^^
Line 9, column 9, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , Company
...stressful for the employees. Moreover,Company X claims that this policy will help the...
^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 122, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: This
... by shutting down the offices on Friday.This scentence doesnt make any sense,How can...
^^^^
Line 9, column 137, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...wn the offices on Friday.This scentence doesnt make any sense,How can a company make p...
^^^^^^
Line 9, column 158, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , How
...day.This scentence doesnt make any sense,How can a company make profits if its prdu...
^^^^
Line 10, column 110, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: There
...s only when their services run properly.There is no evidence to prove that shutting o...
^^^^^
Line 11, column 31, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...profits. This claim made by the company X is completely illogical. The primar...
^^
Line 13, column 83, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: If
...he company to run are healthy employees.If the employees are well and fit ,then th...
^^
Line 13, column 116, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...loyees.If the employees are well and fit ,then the employee can work up to his ful...
^^
Line 14, column 9, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: As
... potential which would lead to profits.As we know already many employees are faci...
^^
Line 14, column 9, 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.
... potential which would lead to profits.As we know already many employees are faci...
^^
Line 14, column 91, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Does
...ng many health issues due to the stress.Does increasing workhours and giving an extr...
^^^^
Line 17, column 104, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: But
... would bring any profits to the company.But the above argument have some serious fl...
^^^
Line 17, column 177, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: There
...serious flaws which are to be addressed.There are no perfect evidances to prove the...
^^^^^
Line 17, column 189, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s which are to be addressed.There are no perfect evidances to prove the claims ma...
^^^
Line 18, column 66, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Therefore
...e the claims made by the commpany above.Therefore the arugument is not strogn enough to p...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 18, column 66, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...e the claims made by the commpany above.Therefore the arugument is not strogn enough to p...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1963.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 397.0 441.139720559 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94458438287 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84508788245 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.476070528967 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 584.1 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 39.0 22.8473053892 171% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 120.522031181 57.8364921388 208% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 196.3 119.503703932 164% => OK
Words per sentence: 39.7 23.324526521 170% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.9 5.70786347227 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 14.0 5.15768463074 271% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 28.0 5.25449101796 533% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.35571108839 0.218282227539 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153453211492 0.0743258471296 206% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.094608049963 0.0701772020484 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131048442412 0.128457276422 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.085759227839 0.0628817314937 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 21.7 14.3799401198 151% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.35 48.3550499002 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.3 12.197005988 142% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 17.6 11.1389221557 158% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.9071856287 151% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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