The vice president of human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation to the company's president.
"In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations. Employees who use the Internet from their workstations need to be identified and punished if we are to reduce the number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities, such as shopping or playing games. By installing software to detect employees' Internet use on company computers, we can prevent employees from wasting time, foster a better work ethic at Climpson, and improve our overall profits."
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 argument suggests that in order to improve employees' productivity, the company should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations. The argument makes a logical sense at first glance, however, there are some assumptions needed to be justified in order to warrantee the argument’s suggestion.
To begin with, the argument seems to believe that monitoring employees to force to be focus on work is beneficial to boost productivity. However, working without stopping may exhaust employee and it is believed that proper rest can boost efficiency. According to a statistic collected by the Economist, one of the most <span style="font-size: 19.36px;">authoritative </span>magazine, the stats suggests that moderate rest can boost efficiency in office by at least 30% and if employees are forced to perform well, their productivity tends to fall. Therefore, without further justification regarding monitoring employees can improve productivity, the suggestion remains specious.
Secondly, the argument seems to assume that employees appear to accept to be monitored. Generally, monitoring employees is considered illegal and it may result in a complicated lawsuit. Therefore, if a group of employees manage to fight back and charge the company for illegally invading privacy, not only will the productivity falls but also the company will lose money eventually. Does everyone in the company agree with such plan? We don’t know. Consequently, unless all the employees agree on this suggestion, the argument is unwarranted.
Finally, the argument appears to believe that implement electronic monitor to keep track of employees’ Internet usage can foster better working environment and bring a profit to the company. However, it preclude the cost of purchasing, installing and training employees to use such equipment. Such extra expense may burden the company’s financial situation.
To sum up, there are some assumptions needed to be answered to justify the argument’s suggestion. Such assumptions include: the correlation between non-stopping working and productivity, the credibility, feasibility of the monitoring policy and the cost of implementing the monitoring system.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 330 350
No. of Characters: 1828 1500
No. of Different Words: 177 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.262 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.539 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.042 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 146 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 126 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 72 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.412 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.221 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.765 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.342 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.558 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.084 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 209, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'precludes'?
Suggestion: precludes
...ng a profit to the company. However, it preclude the cost of purchasing, installing and ...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, first, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, at least, such as, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1934.0 2260.96107784 86% => OK
No of words: 325.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.95076923077 5.12650576532 116% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.64689249253 2.78398813304 131% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.544615384615 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 594.0 705.55239521 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 66.7076459981 57.8364921388 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.764705882 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1176470588 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.94117647059 5.70786347227 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193779268515 0.218282227539 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0715436676365 0.0743258471296 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0578349567706 0.0701772020484 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117899335571 0.128457276422 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0354599653907 0.0628817314937 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 48.3550499002 73% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.23 12.5979740519 137% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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