More companies have opened working areas without walls or barriers on their desks. Do the disadvantages of open-plan offices outweigh the advantages?
Open-plan offices with desks free from walls or barriers have become all the rage in more companies. This essay will examine both sides of this trend to give my verdict that the benefits of this phenomenon outweigh its drawbacks.
On the one hand, the open office concepts have been reported to impose pernicious effects to a certain extent on employees’ privacy. This is derived from the fact that workers may be subjected to unwanted scrutiny from others with just a glance if there are no walls or barriers. Consequently, they might then experience a sense of disrespect for the lack of privacy at workplaces, which can adversely affect their work proficiency. Consequently, I believe that workers’ privacy might be somehow adversely affected by open working areas.
On the other hand, I support the idea that the merits of open-plan offices outweigh the demerits in terms of creating friendly working environments and curtailing the budget. Initially, the open-plan design would allows workers to attain a sense of relaxation and friendliness; thus can act as a deterrent to stress and contribute to productivity, and opportunities for effective cooperation between colleagues. Besides, another perk of open office concepts is saving money spent on setup costs. For example, barriers, which is made from metal and plastic, are often sold at a relatively high price. Therefore, companies that do not purchase these products would lessen the money splurged on office infrastructure. Therefore, from my perspective, offices without barriers would do more good than harm.
In conclusion, as for the aforementioned explanations, I concur that the advantages of cooperative and friendly working environments and saving costs outweigh the minimal disadvantages of lacking privacy in open-plan offices.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 214, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'allow'
Suggestion: allow
.... Initially, the open-plan design would allows workers to attain a sense of relaxation...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...barriers would do more good than harm. In conclusion, as for the aforementioned...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, consequently, if, may, so, then, therefore, thus, as for, for example, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1540.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 280.0 315.596192385 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.5 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06976699242 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.607142857143 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 471.6 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.0999189688 49.4020404114 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.461538462 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5384615385 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06120827912 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.38920951306 0.244688304435 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12373621107 0.084324248473 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0945660928834 0.0667982634062 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215140218543 0.151304729494 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0437629403571 0.056905535591 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.0946893788 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.62 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.47 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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