Employers are always seeking ways to enhance their employees' productivity and subsidizing healthy pursuits may be one way of achieving this. There are arguments on both sides, however, which we will discuss here.
On the one hand, it might be said if workers are fitter and less stressed, their working time will be more efficient, leading to higher levels of output and service. Furthermore, the work/life balance of the staff will hopefully be improved, because their leisure time will be more fulfilling.This may even be more motivating than pay increments, perks or financial rewards such as bonus or incentives which may be hard to attain. Finally, feeling healthier may lead to better job satisfaction which is in itself a motivating factor.
Conversely, the problem with such leisure based subsidies is that their efficacy is virtually impossible to quantify. For example, with target related payments, employers can at least monitor whether the objectives are reached or not. It might also be said that, if this budget was spent on the job training or day release programs, the employees would achieve better career progression and have better prospects. These matters are all easier to measure, especially in performance reviews and appraisals, and may even help to reduce the risk of redundancy if the company restrictions, downsizes or outsources its workforce.
Overall, it seems that while health related subsidies are superficially attractive, the lack of measurability is a substantial drawback. Spending funds on ongoing training would appear to be a better use of company or Human Resources budgets.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, conversely, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, so, while, at least, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 41.998997996 55% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1371.0 1615.20841683 85% => OK
No of words: 255.0 315.596192385 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37647058824 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9507921248 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.639215686275 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 417.6 506.74238477 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6073872197 49.4020404114 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.636363636 106.682146367 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1818181818 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06120827912 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.134826570432 0.244688304435 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0479422681849 0.084324248473 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.039426720107 0.0667982634062 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0781696263742 0.151304729494 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0543138719398 0.056905535591 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.29 8.58950901804 120% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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