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 from Monday to Friday. although the policy is new, the company claims that the policy will help to increase profits by shutting down offices Fridays and to boost employee morale by reducing commuting time to and from work each weel
The author claims here that the policy to shut down offices on Friday and work for 8 hours per day from Monday to Thursday will help in increasing profits and to boost employee morale by reducing commuting time to and from work each week. Reveals several reasons for poor reasoning and ill-defined terminology. To justify this conclusion the author reasons that it will boost employee morale by reducing commuting time and also increase profits. However, careful scrutiny of the evidence reveals that it provides little credible support for the authors' conclusion. Hence, the argument can be considered incomplete.
First of all, the argument readily assumes that commuting time is significant for most of the employees and that those employees would be happy to work 4 days and in order to avoid 1 day commute time. This is merely an assumption made without solid ground. For example, let's assume that most of the company employee prefer to stay nearby to the office usually no one travel long distance. Hence, the argument would have been much more convincing if it would be evaluated and provide a proportion. Furthermore, the argument fails to address how the 10 hours workday might alter the schedule lives of an employee outside the work. For example, they have other schedules such as picking up children / or spending time with family, then this plan is not convincing for them.
The argument points out that working for days for 10 hours will increase company profits. This again is a weak and unsupported claim and it doesn't provides any relation between profit and working for 10 hours a day and rest for one day, indeed it will actually reduce the profit author assumes that increase in cost increase in profit. To illustrate, what about customers who want to contact sales person on Friday? By extending the hours for salespeople while cutting off one workday could actually result in decreased revenues. If the argument provided evidence that an increase in hours will increase revenues which increases the profit that it would have been a lot more convincing for reader.
This brings us to the final assumption that there are no negative consequences relative to shutting down completely on Friday. However careful scrutiny of evidence reveals that it provides little credible support for the author concludes in several critical respect and rises several skeptical questions. For example not responding to the customer on Friday will this make them satisfied? Will workers have the potential to work for 10 hours a day? indeed it will make them tired and decrease the speed of working. From this how the profits are increased? .Without convincing answers to these questions the reader is left with the impression that the claims made by the author are more of wishful thinking rather than substantive evidence.
Company X has developed an interesting idea that may be worth further exploration, but committing to such a plan immodestly would be rash. There are a number of variables that needed to be examined before concluding that the plan is likely to achieve the stated goals without resulting in untended consequences. Further, the company must carefully examine the responsibility of financial consequences associated with spreading 40 hours of work over 4 days rather than 5 days.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 544 350
No. of Characters: 2717 1500
No. of Different Words: 264 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.829 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.994 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.575 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 208 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 163 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 107 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.898 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.583 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.273 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.483 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.066 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 546, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...rovides little credible support for the authors conclusion. Hence, the argument can be ...
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Line 9, column 141, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... is a weak and unsupported claim and it doesnt provides any relation between profit an...
^^^^^^
Line 13, column 450, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Indeed
...e potential to work for 10 hours a day? indeed it will make them tired and decrease th...
^^^^^^
Line 13, column 450, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: indeed,
...e potential to work for 10 hours a day? indeed it will make them tired and decrease th...
^^^^^^
Line 13, column 557, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...rom this how the profits are increased? .Without convincing answers to these ques...
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Line 13, column 558, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Without
...om this how the profits are increased? .Without convincing answers to these questions t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, so, then, while, for example, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 28.8173652695 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2783.0 2260.96107784 123% => OK
No of words: 543.0 441.139720559 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12523020258 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82725184711 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64214208407 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 204.123752495 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.500920810313 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 849.6 705.55239521 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.2274479396 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.038461538 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8846153846 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 5.70786347227 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.20758483034 183% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
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: 0.298500462611 0.218282227539 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0840911220838 0.0743258471296 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107948466884 0.0701772020484 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17089571312 0.128457276422 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0706822698829 0.0628817314937 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 98.500998004 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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