Less working days for employees has become a hot topic recently as it can be advantageous for both employees and employers. In this essay, I discuss the benefits of this new trend for companies and their staff.
Firstly, a four-day work week instead of five or six days, guarantees employees' better work -life balance and reduces work-related stress and tension. If employees have more days off during the week, they can spend more quality time with their family and friends, follow their passions, schedule appointments, travel, and have a well-rounded life. As a result, they will be happier and more confident in the workplace. In contrast, overworking not only increases the level of stress in the workplace and makes staff incompetent, but also leads to faster burnout, impaired memory, depression and insomnia. Reports demonstrate that, in countries with the culture of long working hours, such as Japan, there is a high rate of depression and even commiting suicide among workers.
Secondly, less working days decreases the costs of the company while increasing workers efficiency. From a business point of view, reducing working hours can eliminate around 20% of their variable expenses such as electricity, energy, janitorial services, cleaning services, and more. For instance, Swedish companies which could limit working days to four days a week, benefited from a 30% cost decrease. Moreover, according to recent surveys there is no direct correlation between long working hours and increased output. Having longer working hours for employees can lead to poor decision-making skills, interpersonal communication, and faulty management style.
To conclude, there are various reasons why working three or four days per week will be beneficial for personnel and employers. For instance this strategy gives workers the necessary amount of time for relaxing activities, motivating them to be more efficient and productive at work while decreasing company costs.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 81, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'workers'' or 'worker's'?
Suggestion: workers'; worker's
...e costs of the company while increasing workers efficiency. From a business point of v...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, while, for instance, in contrast, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 10.4138276553 173% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 41.998997996 71% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1680.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 305.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.50819672131 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86255984354 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.626229508197 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 491.4 506.74238477 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.8763739176 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.0 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7857142857 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.78571428571 7.06120827912 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.275892985943 0.244688304435 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101819101925 0.084324248473 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0923610619594 0.0667982634062 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186810575494 0.151304729494 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0537326028326 0.056905535591 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.65 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 78.4519038076 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 81, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'workers'' or 'worker's'?
Suggestion: workers'; worker's
...e costs of the company while increasing workers efficiency. From a business point of v...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, while, for instance, in contrast, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 10.4138276553 173% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 41.998997996 71% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1680.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 305.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.50819672131 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86255984354 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.626229508197 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 491.4 506.74238477 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.8763739176 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.0 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7857142857 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.78571428571 7.06120827912 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.275892985943 0.244688304435 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101819101925 0.084324248473 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0923610619594 0.0667982634062 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186810575494 0.151304729494 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0537326028326 0.056905535591 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.65 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 78.4519038076 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.