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 Vice President of Human Resources at Climpson Industries recommends that the internet activity of employees must be monitored, and action should be taken in case of misuse, in order to increase productivity and profits. However, the arguments he makes for the proposal are based on multiple unwarranted assumptions.
The first major assumption that the vice president makes is that several employees actually spend a considerable amount of time on recreational and leisurely activities when using their systems in the workplace. If this was truly the case, the company would have been very unproductive and the question would have been "How do we minimize losses?" rather than "How do we increase profits?". No survey has been conducted to get an idea of how much time is actually spent on unproductive activities. Without this data, spying on employees' internet uses is unjustified.
The vice president also does not consider the costs involved in licensing and installing the monitoring software. If the employees are productive and do not spend much time on leisure, the entire argument of the Vice President is moot and the software would be a costly overhead for the company. This means that overall profits would be reduced, not go up.
The vice president also assumes that the workstations are the only way employees can spend time on the internet inside the workplace. However, in the modern day, every employee of a large company would probably have a decent - if not a flagship - mobile phone, equipped with an Internet package and basic to advanced internet browsers. How would the company monitor employees' private phones? It is impossible to stop employees from using their personal devices in the workplace using the recommendations provided.
Finally, the vice president does not consider possible backlash from employees. There are several work-related activities that overlap with private use, such as checking emails or shopping for parts for a prototype. Employees would not accept the company looking at their private emails under the pretext of keeping track of unproductive activities. If the recommendation is implemented, it may adversely affect the trust employees have in the company. This means that instead of fostering a better work ethic, the recommendation may create an environment of mistrust and purgatory, where employees will be scared to perform any action deviating from what they are explicitly asked to undertake.
In conclusion, the recommendation is highly flawed, built upon baseless assumptions and does not support the claims. It will, with high probability, have an effect very different from the intent. Other ways of increasing profits need to be explored instead of scrutinising the employees.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 8 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 433 350
No. of Characters: 2259 1500
No. of Different Words: 223 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.562 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.217 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.859 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 168 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 140 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 105 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 68 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.619 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.037 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.619 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.308 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.55 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.079 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 548, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'employees'' or 'employee's'?
Suggestion: employees'; employee's
...ctivities. Without this data, spying on employees internet uses is unjustified. The vi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, finally, first, however, if, look, may, so, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2347.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 433.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42032332564 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01066585079 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519630484988 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 732.6 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.3788846193 57.8364921388 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.761904762 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.619047619 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.90476190476 5.70786347227 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.353197538639 0.218282227539 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102379223108 0.0743258471296 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.079000825455 0.0701772020484 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182420828885 0.128457276422 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0826050655986 0.0628817314937 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.04 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 98.500998004 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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